No image available

PrintsGerman20th century

Glass 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.

Related Artworks

Prints

Dancing Couple, from the portfolio "New European Graphics, Portfolio V: German Artists"

Christian Rohlfs, c. 1913 (printed 1922)

Linocut printed in black ink on tan wove paper

20th centuryGerman

Prints

Bauhaus Building, Dessau, 1925-1926: Ground floor plan

Walter Gropius, 1925-1926

photomechanical print with yellow wash on cream wove paper, mounted overall to gray board

Portrait of the Writer Detlev von Liliencron (1844-1909)

Hans Olde, 1894

Lithograph printed in brown ink on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryGerman

Prints

Halle Civic Center, Museum, and Stadium, Halle, 1927-1928: Comprehensive traffic plan, 1:1000

Walter Gropius, 1927-1928

Photomechanical print with wash and gouache on paper

20th centuryGerman

Prints

Prefabricated Copper Houses, 1931-1932: Building type D1: beam layout, 1:20

Walter Gropius, 1931-1932

20th centuryGerman

Prints

Cripple, Blind Man, and Old Beggar Woman, from the portfolio "The Head"

Ernst Barlach, 1919

Woodcut printed in black ink on off-white laid paper

20th centuryGerman

Prints

Superman in Trouble

John Heartfield, 1935

Photogravure printed on cream wove paper

20th centuryGerman

Prints

XII: Death on the Cross, from the series "Stations of the Cross of Atonement"

HAP Grieshaber, 1969

Woodcut printed in black and gray inks on off-white Japanese paper

20th centuryGerman

Prints

About A More Beautiful Death

Werner Tübke, 1981

Portfolio of six lithographs, printed cover, and text sheet, folded

20th centuryGerman

Prints

Marine (with Shipowners)

Lyonel Feininger, 1918

Woodcut printed in black ink on orange wove paper

20th centuryGerman

Prints

Furniture Designs, 1929-1932: Cabinets: isometrics

Walter Gropius, 1929-1932

Photomechanical print, gouache, and collage elements on paper

20th centuryGerman