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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2019.28.3
People
Otto Piene, German (Laasphe, Westphalia, Germany 1928 - 2014 Berlin, Germany)
Title
Untitled (notes, left page); Untitled (notes with "Blue Star Linz," right page)
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Sketchbook: "Retrospective of Inflatables"/"Tobago faces"/Landscapes
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook page, drawing
Date
1984
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/375942

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black pen and blue marker on paper
Dimensions
open (approx.): 37.6 × 58.4 cm (14 13/16 × 23 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Left page, u.l., in black pen: Blue Star L / Brussels Fl. / Iowa Star / Milwakee A. / Grand Rapids Carousel / Minotaur / Hexagonal Rooster / Major Black Rose / Minor Black Rose / Brockton Flower / Berlin Superstar / Flying Icarus
  • inscription: Left page, u.r., in black pen: Icarus Head / Blue Hand
  • inscription: Left page, l.l., in black pen: --> // "Blue Star Linz" , 19801 [encircled] --> 6 [encircled] Stars/Flowers [crossed out] Stars & Star Fl. [crossed out] / STARS (& star flowers) // 7 [encircled] + 8 [encircled] HUMANS (Icarus + G.R. Carousel) / 9 [encircled] + 10 [encircled] BEASTS (Minotaurs + Hex. Rooster) / 11 [encircled] + 12 [encircled] BLACK ROSES / 13 [encircled] + 14 [encircled] FLOOR PIECES (Icarus Head + Blue Hand)
  • inscription: Right page, in black pen: 96 conesList of inflatables for Australia / --> 150 & 200 / year / anniversary / celebration // DDF., 13 July, Friday, '84 / sequence "by size & importance" // 1 [encircled] length fully inflated, with helium / loops & full-length inflation tube / 300' / ⌀ of star 45' / length of inflation tube ca 120' / length of straight helium tubes / (before looping them) ca. 250' / filling of one tube: 4-5 tanks of / helium (⍨ 1.000 cm' per tube) / no. of loops: 8-10, i.e. 35-45 tanks / of helium o[f]. ca. 200 cm' ea. / ca. loop 20-25 lbs. o[f]. polyethylene / or-so vol [?] [?] 40-inch-wide / 2-mil, or 2 1/4-mil-thick clear / polyethylene tubing / colored parts air-inflated / clear parts helium inflated
  • inscription: Right page, in blue marker: --> // "Blue Star Linz" , 1980
  • inscription: Right page, l.l., in black pen: 96 cones

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
2019.28.3
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Pages 5-6

Subjects and Contexts

  • Animating the Page

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