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Print, Rhodiafil

This is a Print. It was designed by Herbert Bayer. It is dated ca. 1930 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors.

Its dimensions are

4.4 × 14 cm (1 3/4 × 5 1/2 in.)

It is inscribed

Printed in black ink, verso: Seidenwebern / PFERDMENGES & CO. G.M.B.H. / Rheydt • Modische Schaft-und Jacquard-Stoffe; in blue ink, vertically, left: Plissè crèpe / double-face

Cite this object as

Print, Rhodiafil; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); offset lithograph on paper; 4.4 × 14 cm (1 3/4 × 5 1/2 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-76

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