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Button Palm Tree

1968

Artists

Sigmar PolkeArtist

Classification

Prints

Medium

Offset lithograph in black ink on beige art paper

Culture

German

Century

20th century

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Department

Busch-Reisinger Museum

Dimensions

30 x 21 cm (11 13/16 x 8 1/4 in.)

Provenance

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

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