Collection Monsters Are Inoffensive

Monsters Are Inoffensive

Daniel Isaac Spoerri, Artist Robert Filliou, Artist Roland Topor, Artist
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About the Artwork

Monsters Are Inoffensive

1967

Daniel Isaac Spoerri (Artist) Romanian, born 1930 Robert Filliou (Artist) French, 1926 - 1987 Roland Topor (Artist) French, 1938 - 1997

Paper and ink

Overall: 7 × 5 inches (17.8 × 12.7 cm)

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Contemporary Art after 1950

Gift of Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman Fluxus Foundation

2008.515

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Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman Fluxus Foundation;
2009-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Hendricks, Jon. FLUXUS ETC. Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum. Detroit, 1981, p. 97.

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Robert Filliou; Daniel Isaac Spoerri; Roland Topor, Monsters Are Inoffensive, 1967, paper and ink. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman Fluxus Foundation, 2008.515.

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