Rebecca Horn
Rosa: The Governess

Rosa: The Governess

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Rosa: The Governess
Rosa: The Governess
ArtistGerman, born 1944
CultureGerman
Titles
  • Rosa: The Governess
  • Rose 'la gouvernante'
  • Hammer Machine series
Date1989
PlaceGermany
MediumMotorized steel hammer, bundled charcoal sticks, pair of women's lace-up boots, and charcoal powder
DimensionsOverall: 144 × 12 × 12 in. (365.8 × 30.5 × 30.5 cm)
Charcoal holder: 15 3/4 × 8 × 10 in. (40 × 20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Each boot: 18 1/4 × 11 3/4 × 3 in. (46.4 × 29.8 × 7.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Max and Isabell Smith Herzstein
Object number90.331.A-.D
Not on view

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ProvenanceThe artist; [Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston]; purchased by MFAH, 1989.
Exhibition History"Modernism in a Century of Change III, From Object to Icon: The Art of Assemblage," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 21–August 30, 1998.

"The Passionate Adventure of the Real: Collage, Assemblage, and the Object in 20th Century Art" The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, October 18, 2003–February 8, 2004.

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