Joseph Beuys

Catalogue entry

P07597 IPHIGENIA 1973

Inscribed ‘Joseph Beuys’ centre right and ‘XV/XX’
Screenprint, published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg in an edition of 80, 16 3/8×22 (41.6×56)
Purchased from Edition Staeck (Grant-in-Aid) 1981
Lit: op.cit., no.77

Silkscreen on shiny gold PVC sheet, from a photograph by Abisag Tüllmann and Inge Werth taken during Beuys' action ‘Titus/Iphigenia’. This was performed at Experimenta III in Frankfurt on 29 and 30 May 1969. There were twenty prints (numbered I to XX) besides the edition of 80, and further proofs not on metallic sheet.

Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1984

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