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Lonely Metropolitan

Artist Herbert Bayer (American, born Austria, 1900 - 1985)
Date1932; printed later
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 5 × 3 13/16 inches (12.7 × 9.68 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.2556
SignedSigned on negative, on image recto, lower right corner, in black pen: "Herbert Bayer"
On View
Not on view
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DescriptionImage of eyes imposed on a pair of floating hands infront of a building facade.Provenance
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1987;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Copyright© Estate of Herbert Bayer/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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