Rebecca Horn
The Hydra-Forest: Performing Oscar Wilde, 1988

Artwork Info

Artwork title: The Hydra-Forest: Performing Oscar Wilde
Artist name: Rebecca Horn
Date created: 1988
Classification: sculpture
Medium: electrical devices, glass, mercury, coal, and shoes
Dimensions: 160 in. × 250 in. × 450 in. (406.4 cm × 635 cm × 1143 cm)

Date acquired: 1990
Credit: Collection SFMOMA
Accessions Committee Fund purchase: gift of Frances and John G. Bowes, Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Robert I. MacDonnell, Helen O'Neill Schwab, and Mrs. Paul Wattis; bequest of Grace McCann Morley; the Doris and Donald Fisher Fund; and the Anne Marie MacDonald Fund
Copyright: © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Beeldrecht, Amsterdam
Permanent URL: https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/90.103.A-H
Artwork status: Not on view at this time.

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