Spring and Tongue
- Date
- 1992
- Material
- Watercolor over graphite on paper
- made in
- Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen state, Germany, Europe
- Classification
- Drawings & watercolors
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 9 7/16 x 12 5/8 in. (24 x 32.1 cm)
- Credit Line
- Partial and promised gift of Betsy Millard, the Earl and Betsy Millard Collection
- Rights
- © Asta Groting
- Object Number
- 44:2003
NOTES
A disembodied tongue lies below two soup plates. Blue water flows through one soup plate into the other, and out again. Asta Gröting explores her interest in concealment and containment by magnifying the tongue, normally concealed from view in a mouth, and emphasizing the plates' inability to contain the flowing spring of water. The drawing is part of a series of preparatory sketches that depict the workings of inner organs that Gröting made during the early 1990s. By freeing the organ from its normal context, Gröting makes it a separate sculptural entity.
Provenance
1992
Galerie Grässlin Erhardt, Frankfurt, Germany, purchased from the artist [1]
1992 -
Earl Millard (d.1996) and Betsy Millard, St. Louis, MO, USA, purchased from Galerie Grässlin Erhardt [2]
2003 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, partial and promised gift of Betsy Millard [3]
Note:
The primary source of provenance is Betsy Millard [information for appraisals form, SLAM document files]. Supplemental documents are listed below.
[1] Invoice dated April 8, 1992 from Galerie Grässlin Erhardt addressed to Earl Millard [SLAM document files]
[2] See note [1].
[3] The terms of this partial and promised gift are detailed in the contract between Betsy Millard and the Saint Louis Art Museum [Gift and Loan Agreement between Betsy Millard and SLAM, signed (no day or month) 2003, SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, June 3, 2003.
Galerie Grässlin Erhardt, Frankfurt, Germany, purchased from the artist [1]
1992 -
Earl Millard (d.1996) and Betsy Millard, St. Louis, MO, USA, purchased from Galerie Grässlin Erhardt [2]
2003 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, partial and promised gift of Betsy Millard [3]
Note:
The primary source of provenance is Betsy Millard [information for appraisals form, SLAM document files]. Supplemental documents are listed below.
[1] Invoice dated April 8, 1992 from Galerie Grässlin Erhardt addressed to Earl Millard [SLAM document files]
[2] See note [1].
[3] The terms of this partial and promised gift are detailed in the contract between Betsy Millard and the Saint Louis Art Museum [Gift and Loan Agreement between Betsy Millard and SLAM, signed (no day or month) 2003, SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, June 3, 2003.
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