About the Artwork
Glass Eyes
1926
Herbert Bayer
1900-1985
American
Unknown
Gelatin silver print
Image: 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm) Sheet: 9 1/4 × 13 1/2 inches (23.5 × 34.3 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, Honorarium and Memorial Gifts Fund
76.28
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Markings
Signed, lower right, in pencil: bayer
Inscribed, lower left, in pencil: 2/25
Provenance
(Ex Libris, New York, New York, USA)
1976-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Herbert Bayer, Glass Eyes, 1926, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Honorarium and Memorial Gifts Fund, 76.28.
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