Jun 14, 2012 - Sale 2281

Sale 2281 - Lot 229

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
HERBERT BAYER
Seven Convolutions.

Portfolio with complete text and 7 color lithographs, 1948. 461x570 mm; x22 1/4 inches (sheets), full margins, loose as issued. Edition of 90. Each lithograph signed and inscribed "90 imp." in pencil, lower margin. Original pasteboard portfolio case. Very good impressions.

Bayer (1900-1985) was born in Austria and trained and taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar during the 1920s. He left Germany in the mid-1930s, arriving in New York in 1938. In 1946, Bayer and his wife relocated to Aspen, Colorado, where he was instrumental in that town's post-war development. Hahn/Wingler 39-45.