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Mason's Workshop
Bernd Becher German
Not on view
Completed when Bernd Becher was about twenty-one years old, this accomplished lithograph is believed to be the earliest surviving composition by the artist. The individual elements are simply but effectively delineated and include a worker’s clothing, a drop cloth, crude scaffolding, and a large steel float for plastering walls and floors. The interior view evokes the scene at the beginning or end of a typical workday without depicting the laborer or the labor itself.
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