Joseph Beuys

(c)SABAM Belgiƫ, 2017 - Courtesy Private Collection, photo: M HKA, 2017
Joyce, 1961
Mixed Media , 45 x 65 cm
paint on cardboard, wire

Joseph Beuys had an affinity for the work of James Joyce, he even referred to him in interviews. Beuys claims to have read Finnegans Wake and he filled several notebooks with line drawings and textual fragments for an extension to Joyce’s Ulysses.