Composition with Green Dot, 1974

  • Herbert Bayer, American, 1900-1985

Acrylic over graphite pencil on off-white watercolor paper

  • Image: 12 × 12 inches (30.5 × 30.5 cm) Sheet: 17 3/8 × 15 inches (44.1 × 38.1 cm)

Gift of Sheila and Jan van der Marck in honor of Ellen Sharp and the Graphic Arts Council Silver Anniversary

1992.25

Signed and dated, in brush and black pigment or ink, lower right: bayer 74/44

Inscribed, in pencil, lower left edge of sheet: compostion around green dot | study for 1974/49 (50 x 50) Inscribed, lower right edge of sheet: 12 x 12" acrylic 1974/44

1992-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Herbert Bayer, Composition with Green Dot, 1974, acrylic over graphite pencil on off-white watercolor paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Sheila and Jan van der Marck in honor of Ellen Sharp and the Graphic Arts Council Silver Anniversary, 1992.25.