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Title: Drawing for the Theater of Orgies and Mysteries
Artist:
Hermann Nitsch (Austrian, Vienna 1938–2022 Mistelbach)
Date: 1985
Medium: Black ballpoint pen and graphite with traces of blue ballpoint pen on paper
Dimensions: 11 11/16 × 8 5/16 in. (29.7 × 21.1 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Purchase, The Cosmopolitan Art Foundation and Walter Bareiss Gifts, 1986
Object Number: 1986.297.22
Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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