Lot 668 R

Work in 2 parts: 2 photo-offsetprints on cardboard, each 83 x 105 cm, of which one with a zinc cliché and worked over with sulphur, framed together in a plexiglass frame case. The overworked print signed and dated in black ink Beuys 1963 and numbered 65/202 and inscribed OSTENDE am Strand oder in den Dünen ein kubusförmiges Haus darin "Das Samurai-Schwert ist eine Blut-Wurst" SOCKEL lower right. Edition Tangente, Heidelberg.
An edition of 202 works was planned, but only 150 were completed. The date 1963 refers to an action which was to occur that year in Ostende but which was not carried out.
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