- Artist
- Harry Kramer 1925 – 1997
- Original title
- Schlitten
- Medium
- Metal
- Dimensions
- Object: 762 × 1041 × 546 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Kate Maremont Foundation on behalf of Mr and Mrs Arnold H. Maremont 1971
- Reference
- T01300
Catalogue entry
Harry Kramer born 1925
T01300 Sledge
1963
Not inscribed
Wire construction with electric motor, 30 x 41 x 21 1/2 (76.2 x 104 x 54.5)
Presented by the Kate Maremont Foundation on behalf of Mr and Mrs Arnold H. Maremont 1971
Prov:
Mr and Mrs Arnold Maremont, Chicago (purchased from the artist through the Galerie Niepel, Düsseldorf, February 1965)
Exh:
Documenta III, Kassel, June-October 1964 (works not listed; among a group of Kramer's sculptures of the years 1962-4)
Kramer's kinetic sculptures of this period are frequently fantastic in form and allude to such shapes as a torso (T00714), a foot or a cage.
Published in:
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.402, reproduced p.402