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Walter Gropius Birthday Card

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Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1943

GUSN

GUSN-248373

Description

Collage birthday card to Walter Gropius from Josep Lluis and Moncha Sert. The central black and white image on photographic paper shows a man and woman in ethnographic dress; the heads of the original couple have been replaced with the heads of Josep Lluis and Moncha Sert.

Details

Descriptive Terms

pictures (two-dimensional representations)
collages (visual works)
paper (fiber product)
photographic paper
Collage
Collage

Maker

Sert, Josep Lluis, 1902-1983 (Artist)

Credit Line

Bequest of Ise Gropius

Accession Number

1984.58.2

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