Photographs from the Ginny Williams Collection
Photographs from the Ginny Williams Collection
Herbert Bayer
Optics Notations I and II
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December 4, 04:31 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Herbert Bayer
1900 - 1985
Optics Notations I and II
2 ferrotyped gelatin silver prints, numbered ‘#1’ or ‘#2’ in ink in the margin, each signed, titled, dated, and annotated 'vintage' in pencil on the reverse, circa 1943 (2)
images: each approximately 9 1/2 by 13 1/2 in. (24.1 by 34.3 cm.)
Collection of Joella Bayer, the photographer’s widow
Christie’s New York, 15 April 1992, Sale 7428, Lots 39 and 40
Arthur A. Cohen, Herbert Bayer: The Complete Work (Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984), p. 278