Collection Friday Object “1st-Class Fried Fish Bones (Herring)”

Friday Object “1st-Class Fried Fish Bones (Herring)”

Joseph Beuys , Artist Eat Art Gallery , Publisher
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About the Artwork

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

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Signed, in pencil, on parchment paper: Joseph Beuys

Inscribed, in pencil, on parchment paper: Certifikat 1a | gebrantene Fischgräte | (Hering)

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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