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Print, Award to Herbert Bayer from Grafik Design Austria

This is a Print. It was subject: Herbert Bayer. It is dated 1987 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is hand colored offset lithograph on glossy white paper, mounted to white stock. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors.

Its dimensions are

33 × 22.5 cm (13 × 8 7/8 in.) Mount: 42 × 29.9 cm (16 9/16 × 11 3/4 in.)

It is signed

Printed in black ink, vertically, lower left: Hommage a bayer-type, 1923, by J. Scheiber/Austria

It is inscribed

Signed in pen and black ink, lower left: Peter Simlinger; Signed in pen and blue ink, lower right: Thomas Vavrinek

Cite this object as

Print, Award to Herbert Bayer from Grafik Design Austria; Subject: Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); hand colored offset lithograph on glossy white paper, mounted to white stock; 33 × 22.5 cm (13 × 8 7/8 in.) Mount: 42 × 29.9 cm (16 9/16 × 11 3/4 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-86

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