109 - Bauhaus - Herbert Bayer. Design sketch for a book cover. Colored chalk and pencil. 1947. 26.5 : 20 cm (39.4 : 27.0 cm). Signed.

Bauhaus - Herbert Bayer. Design sketch for a book cover. Colored chalk and pencil. 1947. 26.5 : 20 cm (39.4 : 27.0 cm). Signed. Starting time: approx. 1:03 p.m. (schedule subject to change) On tracing paper. - Design for “the way beyond ‘art’ by Alexander Dorner || problems of contemporary art.” - Diagonal line and title lettering in red and blue, outlined in pencil, with Bayer’s detailed notes on typography and colors in the margin. - Signed “Herbert” and “Herbert Bayer” in the lower left corner. - Dorner’s monograph on the work of Herbert Bayer was published in 1947 by Wittenborn as Volume 3 of the series “Problems of Contemporary Art.” The dust jacket featured Bayer’s typeface design, set as requested in Paul Renner’s famous Futura and printed in a single color over a reproduced drawing. - Given as a gift by the artist to Eckard Neumann, Frankfurt, and subsequently acquired by the current owner from him. - In impeccable condition.