Auction: 20th Century Design - 2257Location: BostonDate / Time: December 11, 2004 11:00AM
Description:
Bauhaus
Herbert Bayer
Paper currency
Designed for the government of Thuringia, Wiemar, 1923
Set of seven one million mark notes in varying colorways
approx. ht. 3, wd. 5 3/4 in. (7.6, 14.6 cm)
Reference: E. Neumann, Functional Graphic Design in the 20's. Reinhold, New York, 1967, p. 45; Frank Whitford, ed., The Bauhaus Masters and Students Themselves, Overlook Press, New York, 1993, p. 189
Estimate $600-800