Herr-As-Sesor-im-Bad

Executed during Michel's stay at the Weimar Bauhaus, this work is one of the artist's earliest documented works. Masterly conveying Michel's revolutionary treatment of collage and design, Herr-As-Sesor-im-Bad numbers among his most inventive compositions. Much as Fernand Léger was deeply impressed by his experiences during the First World War, so too was Michel, whose role as a pilot instilled in him a profound admiration for the Machine. At the basis of his abstractions lie a veneration of its power, but not without a lightly sarcastic touch. This early collage, imbued with a delicate irony, is one of the finest of his Dada phase, a period that greatly endeared Michel to one of Dada's most ardent supporters, Marcel Duchamp.