László Moholy-Nagy

Untitled (fgm 140)

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October 22, 04:00 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Bid

100,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Descendants of László Moholy-Nagy

László Moholy-Nagy

1895 - 1946

Untitled (fgm 140)

gelatin silver print after a unique photogram, the photographer's facsimile signature stamp, annotated and dated 'Photogram 1926' by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, the photographer's widow, in pencil, on the reverse, tipped to a paper mount, variously annotated by Sibyl and Hattula Moholy-Nagy, the photographer's daughter, in pencil on the reverse

image: 15⅜ by 11¾ in. (39.1 by 29.8 cm.)

Executed in 1925, printed circa 1929.

Collection of the photographer

By descent to the present owners

New York, Howard Wise Gallery, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy : From Pigment to Light, October - November 1970

Hayama, The Museum of Modern Art, Moholy-Nagy in Motion, April - July 2011, and traveling thereafter to:

Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, July - September 2011

Kawamura, The Kawamura DIC Museum of Modern Art, September - December 2011

Andreas Haus, Photographs and Photograms: Moholy-Nagy (New York, 1978), pl. 123

Krisztina Passuth, Moholy-Nagy (New York, 1985), p. 110

László Moholy-Nagy (Valencia: IVAM Centre Julio González, 1991), p. 215

László Moholy-Nagy (London, 2001), p. 23 (this print)