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PrintsGerman20th century

Higher Beings Command

1968

Artists

Sigmar PolkeArtist

Classification

Prints

Medium

14 offset lithographs in black ink on beige paper with text sheet in the publisher's cloth-covered cardboard portfolio, pastedown title label on front board, colophon label on verso, and certificate label on inside rear cover.

Culture

German

Century

20th century

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Department

Busch-Reisinger Museum

Dimensions

35 x 24 cm (13 3/4 x 9 7/16 in.)

Provenance

[Rene Block, Berlin]. Private Collection, Germany. [Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2013.

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