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Chinese Hare Sugar
Purchased 1982
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paper print screenprint
Chinese Hare Sugar
image: 210 × 296 mm
Purchased 1982
<p><b>P07601</b> CHINESE HARE SUGAR 1979
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<br/>Inscribed ‘Joseph Beuys’ centre right and ‘51/90’
<br/>Screenprint, published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg, 8 1/4×11 5/8 (21×29.6)
<br/>Purchased from Edition Staeck (Grant-in-Aid) 1981
<br/>Lit: op.cit., no.223
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<br/>Beuys found sugar (surrogate honey) and the hare combined in wrapped lump sugar at Documenta v in Kassel, 1972. Both were already significant images in his work, and he subsequently produced three ‘Hare Sugar’ <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/m/multiple" title="Glossary definition for 'Multiple'"><span>multiples</span></a>, the first in 1972, ‘American Hare Sugar’ in 1974, and this work in 1979 from a sweet wrapper found in Shanghai.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1984
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animals: mammals Chinese / Japanese text fine arts and music hare inscriptions objects palette product packaging rabbit reading, writing, printed matter symbols and personifications