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IWAO YAMAWAKI, Tea-glass by Josef Albers, 1933

Tea-glass by Josef Albers, 1933

Gelatin silver print. 6 3/4 x 9 in. (17.1 x 22.9 cm). Signed in pencil on the verso.

PROPERTY FROM THE JACOBSON/HASHIMOTO COLLECTION

PROVENANCE Acquired directly from the artist
LITERATURE Steidl, Iwao Yamawaki, pl. 60 for a variant

In addition to photographing the modernist buildings of the Bauhaus, Iwao Yamawaki was himself a collector of modernist design. The Tea Glass with Saucer and Stirrer depicted here was designed in 1924 by Josef Albers while he was a student at the Bauhaus and was part of the Yamawaki's's personal collection.

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