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1954

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2016

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Magazine Cover, Domus, No. 296

This is a Magazine Cover. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and published by Editoriale Domus and made for (as the client) domus. It is dated July 1954 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

33.1 × 25 cm (13 1/16 × 9 13/16 in.)

It is signed

Printed in black ink, lower right corner: bayer 54 / 38; Inscribed in graphite, verso, upper left corner: H Bayer – 1954 / Magazine Cover; verso, lower right corner, in a different hand: Bayer 90

Cite this object as

Magazine Cover, Domus, No. 296; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Published by Editoriale Domus; Client: domus; offset lithograph on paper; 33.1 × 25 cm (13 1/16 × 9 13/16 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-339

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