Lot 4481: Yamawaki, Iwao: Abstraction: Sheepskin

Abstraction: Sheepskin. 1931. Vintage gelatin silver print on matt paper. 23,4 x 17,2 cm. Signed and dated 1931 in pencil, as well as numbered in another hand on the verso.
Iwao Yamawaki was born in Nagasaki, Japan and came to study at the Bauhaus in Dessau between 1930 and 1932. There he took classes in architecture, interior design and later photography with Walter Peterhans. He was particularily interested in photomontage. After his return to Japan, he founded an architectural firm which became one of the most prominent in post-war Japan. - Some oxidation mirroring along edges of image, otherwise in near excellent condition.
Lit.: Deja-vu, A Photography Quarterly. Tokyo, No. 19, Spring 1995: Bauhaus Photography, ill. p. 66.
Iwao Yamawaki. Editions 7L. Gottingen 1999, ill. Plate 8.