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422

Artist
Georg Herold, German, born 1947
Date
1990
Classification
Drawings & watercolors
Current Location
Not on view
Dimensions
11 5/8 x 8 3/16 in. (29.5 x 20.8 cm)
framed: 20 x 16 1/8 x 1 1/8 in. (50.8 x 41 x 2.8 cm)
Credit Line
Partial and promised gift of Betsy Millard, the Earl and Betsy Millard Collection
Rights
© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Object Number
48:2003
NOTES
A configuration of 422 black, numbered dots is primarily clustered at the center of this page, though 14 are interspersed over the otherwise blank portions of the paper. This work belongs to a series of photoreproductions onto which Georg Herold applied only the final dot, in this case number 422. The other 421 were photocopied from previous drawings in the series. The composition alters after multiple photocopies as the dots become blurry and the numbers illegible, questioning the notion of originality.
1990 -
Georg Herold

- 1991
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany

1991 -
Earl Millard (d.1996) and Betsy Millard, St. Louis, MO, USA, purchased from Galerie Gisela Capitain

2003 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, partial and promised gift of Betsy Millard [1]


Note:
The primary source of provenance is Betsy Millard (information for appraisals form, SLAM document files].

[1] The terms of this partial and promised gift are detailed in the contract between Betsy Millard and the Saint Louis Art Museum [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, June 3, 2003.