Herbert Bayer1932Self-Portrait (Photomontage)
Gelatin silver print12 1/2 x 9 in
Bonhams - New YorkPhotographs (30 October 2012) Sale: 20064, Lot: 27
Signed and annotated 'for my friends Jay and Laney (sp) with warm affection, from Herbert' (Bayer's photographic agent), in pencil in the margin; title and date in pencil in an unidentified hand and the photographer's 'foto herbert bayer' stamp on the verso.
Literature:
Herbert Bayer: Photographic Works, Arco Center for Visual Art, p. 79, pl. 64
Cohen,
Herbert Bayer: The Complete Work, The MIT Press, 1984, p. 377
For an analysis of this photograph: Juliet Hacking (ed.), 2012,
Photography: The Whole Story, (Prestel), pp. 250-251 (The copy in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, is titled "Humanly Impossible")
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