2019.11.58: Untitled (extensive notes and design for inflatable sculpture, two-page spread)
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2019.11.58
- People
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Otto Piene, German (Laasphe, Westphalia, Germany 1928 - 2014 Berlin, Germany)
- Title
- Untitled (extensive notes and design for inflatable sculpture, two-page spread)
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Sketchbook: Walker Art Center
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- sketchbook page, drawing
- Date
- 1977
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/370114
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Blue ink on paper
- Dimensions
- open (approx.): 35.3 × 56.5 cm (13 7/8 × 22 1/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: Left page, in blue ink: Prades, / Chateau de Riell, / (Roussillon) / VIII-14-77 / my thinking now goes, more and / more, in the direction of the / 25 (?) tip "windsock" (flower from / "ANEMONES") flower. I used it, suc- / cessfully, at Princeton. One tip / had been replaced by a "windsock" / neck, and it had been hung / from a wire stretched between trees. / An improved wind intake could / take care of it inflating (or two or / three); wind outlets hardly needed. / The red Princeton flower (not the / flying one) looked like a very sexy red / dinosaur when inflated & moved / by the wind. The Brussels / one could be slightly bigger but / should also be made / out of spinnaker / cloth.
- inscription: Right page, in blue ink: If it wears out too soon / it would have to be / replaced by a / new one. / Calculate / costs of fabric / & labor! / Hanging - still using masts / & stranded wire - showed / leave as much freedom of movement for the "HORTA FLOWER" (?) / as possible.
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Elizabeth Goldring Piene, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2018.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Elizabeth Goldring Piene
- Copyright
- © Otto Piene Estate
- Accession Year
- 2019
- Object Number
- 2019.11.58
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Pages 115-116
Subjects and Contexts
- Animating the Page
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Verification Level
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