Lot 293: Tea-glass by Josef Albers, 1933

PROPERTY FROM THE JACOBSON/HASHIMOTO COLLECTION
Tea-glass by Josef Albers, 1933
Gelatin silver print. 6 3/4 x 9 in. (17.1 x 22.9 cm).  Signed in pencil on the verso.

 Steidl, Iwao Yamawaki, pl. 60 for a variant

 Acquired directly from the artist

In addition to photographing the modernist buildings of the Bauhaus, Iwao Yamawaki was himself a collector of modernist design. The Tea Glass with Saucer and Stirrer depicted here was designed in 1924 by Josef Albers while he was a student at the Bauhaus and was part of the Yamawaki's’s personal collection.