László Moholy-Nagy

Untitled (fgm 30)

Live auction begins on:

October 22, 04:00 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Bid

70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Descendants of László Moholy-Nagy

László Moholy-Nagy

1895 - 1946

Untitled (fgm 30)

a unique object, photogram on gaslight paper, credited 'L. Moholy=Nagy,' titled 'Fotogramm' and dated by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, the photographer's widow, in pencil on the reverse, framed

image: 7 by 5 in. (17.8 by 12.7 cm.)

frame: 16 by 14 in. (40.6 by 35.6 cm.)

Executed in 1922.

Collection of the photographer

By descent to the present owners

László Moholy-Nagy: A Life in Motion, Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, and Photography (London: Annely Juda Fine Art, 2004), pl. 34 (this unique object)

Renate Heyne, Floris M. Neusüss, and Hattula Moholy-Nagy, eds., Moholy-Nagy: The Photograms, Catalogue Raisonné (Ostfildern, 2009), p. 63 (this unique object)