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Print, The Ideal vs. The Real Advertisement Proof
This is a Print. It was created by Maurits Cornelis Escher and Herbert Bayer and designed by Herbert Bayer and made for (as the client) Atlantic Richfield Company. It is dated 1971–85 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on glossy white 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
28 × 21.7 cm (11 × 8 9/16 in.)
It is signed
Printed in black ink, upper left: artist: bayer; center right: artist: escher
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite, upper right: too pale; bottom center: typography not good
Cite this object as
Print, The Ideal vs. The Real Advertisement Proof; Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985), Maurits Cornelis Escher (Dutch, 1898 - 1972); Client: Atlantic Richfield Company; offset lithograph on glossy white paper; 28 × 21.7 cm (11 × 8 9/16 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-288
