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György Kepes

Selyp/Hungary 1906 – 2001 Cambridge, Massachusetts

„two eggs on a convex mirror / black & white threads added“. 1942–1943

Vintage. Gelatin silver print. 43,2 × 35,4 cm (17 × 13 ⅞ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: György Kepes. „two eggs on a convex mirror / black & white threads added“. 1942–1943.

Estimate:

EUR 2,000

 

- 3,000

USD 2,240

 

- 3,360

Sold for:

2,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2016

Modern and Contemporary Photographs, Wednesday, 30.11.2016

Information

Vintage. Gelatin silver print. 43,2 × 35,4 cm (17 × 13 ⅞ in.). In the image lower right signed and dated: „1942" in black ink. On the reverse signed and dated: „1943" in pencil and black ink as well as titled and annotated: „vintage print, only copy" in pencil. Numbered in pencil by a further hand. With slight oxidation mottlings along the edges and minimal handling marks.

Exhibition catalogue enclosed:
The New Bauhaus, School of Design in Chicago, Photographs 1937–1944, ed. Adam J. Boxer, New York 1993.

Formerly auction 17.10.1990, Christie's, New York, lot 199

The New Bauhaus, School of Design in Chicago, Photographs 1937–1944, Banning + Associates, New York, 7.10.–5.11.1993; Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago, 19.1.–18.3.1994; Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, 27.4.–12.6.1994

György Kepes, Malerei, Photographie, Light Images, Druckgraphik, Abb. von Objekten, ed. Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin and Gesellschaft Bildender Künstler Wiens, Berlin 1976, title (mirror inverted detail, there dated: 1940) / Gyorgy Kepes, Light Graphics, ed. Anne H. Hoy, New York 1984, p. 29 (mirror inverted detail, there dated: 1939) / The New Bauhaus, School of Design in Chicago, Photographs 1937–1944, ed. Adam J. Boxer, New York 1993, p. 26

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