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Friday Object “1st-Class Fried Fish Bones (Herring)”
1970
Joseph Beuys (Artist) German, 1921-1986 Eat Art Gallery (Publisher)
Fish bone, parchment, glass-fronted wooden box
Overall: 12 × 4 1/2 × 2 1/2 inches (30.5 × 11.4 × 6.4 cm)
Sculpture
Contemporary Art after 1950
Gift of the Lila and Gilbert Silverman Collection
2023.125
Artist is a member of Artists Rights Society (ARS). Contact ARS. All artwork c/o Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. All rights reserved. Https://arsny.com/licensing-requests/
Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, on parchment paper: [indecipherable] | [indecipherable] | Herring | Joseph Beuys
Stamped, in green, verso: DANIEL SPOERRI | presents | EAT ART Stamped, in black, above printer’s stamp verso: [indecipherable]
Provenance
1982, sold by (Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, New York, USA)
1982-2020, purchased by Gilbert B. Silverman [1925-2016] and Lila Silverman [1933-2020] (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA)
2020-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA), accessioned to the collection in 2023
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Artist is a member of Artists Rights Society (ARS). Contact ARS. All artwork c/o Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. All rights reserved. Https://arsny.com/licensing-requests/
Joseph Beuys, Friday Object “1st-Class Fried Fish Bones (Herring)”, 1970, fish bone, parchment, glass-fronted wooden box. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Lila and Gilbert Silverman Collection, 2023.125.
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