Hugo Gellert

The Transformation of Money into Capital

1933

A detailed black-and-white octopus with long, swirling tentacles and a cloth cap on its head.
A detailed black-and-white octopus with long, swirling tentacles and a cloth cap on its head.
Recto

Not on view

Date
1933

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet (Folded): 22 7/8 × 15 1/2 in. (58.1 × 39.4 cm) Sheet: 22 11/16 × 30 1/4 in. (57.6 × 76.8 cm) Image: 16 × 12 in. (40.6 × 30.5 cm)

Accession number
94.98

Series
Karl Marx' 'Capital' in Pictures

Edition
27/133

Publication
Printed by Atelier Desjobert

Credit line
Gift of Mary Ryan Gallery

Rights and reproductions
© Estate of Hugo Gellert, courtesy Mary Ryan Gallery, New York

API
artworks/9177




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