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Art Deco Black opal cabochon ring (approx. 2 carats TW) set with 28 French cut demantoid garnets all set in a platinum mounting, marked, c. 1920
Art Deco Black opal cabochon ring (approx. 2 carats TW) set with 28 French cut demantoid garnets all set in a platinum mounting, marked, c. 1920
GYÖRGY KEPES (1906-2001) Hungary/USA
Abstraction 1942
Silver gelatin print
Signed: 9 (in a circle, on back); Gyorgy Kepes 1942 (in ink on back)
György Kepes was a Hungarian-born painter, designer, educator and art theorist. After emigrating to the U.S. in 1937, he taught design at the New Bauhaus (later the School of Design, then Institute of Design, then Illinois Institute of Design or IIT) in Chicago. In 1947 He founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he taught until his retirement in 1974.
Framed size: H: 29 3/16” x W: 25 ¼”