- Artist
- Joseph Beuys 1921–1986
- Original title
- Fettbatterie
- Medium
- Felt, fat, tin, metal and cardboard
- Dimensions
- Object: 132 × 373 × 248 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by E.J. Power through the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1984
- Reference
- T03919
Catalogue entry
Joseph Beuys 1921-1986
T03919 Fat Battery
1963
Felt, fat, tin, wood and cardboard 132 x 373 x 248 (5 1/4 x 14 3/4 x 9 3/4)
Not inscribed
Presented by Mr E.J. Power through the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1984
Prov:
the artist, who sold it to Wide White Space Gallery 1967, who sold it to E.J. Power 1974
Repr:
Götz Adriani, Winfried Konnertz and Karin Thomas, Joseph Beuys, Cologne 1973, p.63 as 'Felt-Fat Sculpture'; Caroline Tisdall, Joseph Beuys, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1979, p.156 as 'Felt and Fat Sculpturers'
See entry on T03921.
Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1984-86: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions Including Supplement to Catalogue of Acquisitions 1982-84, Tate Gallery, London 1988, p.96
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