Property from the Descendants of László Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy
View from the Radio Tower, Berlin
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October 22, 04:00 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 USD
Bid
48,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Descendants of László Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy
1895 - 1946
View from the Radio Tower, Berlin
ferrotyped gelatin silver print, mounted, signed by the photographer in pencil on the mount, annotated and dated 'Top' and 'Vom Funkturm, Berlin 1928' by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, the photographer's widow, in ink, on the reverse, framed
image: 9¼ by 6⅞ in. (23.5 by 17.5 cm.)
frame: 20 by 17 in. (50.8 by 43.2 cm.)
Executed in 1928.
Collection of the photographer
By descent to the present owners
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
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Moholy-Nagy: Future Present, May - September 2016, and traveling thereafter to:
The Art Institute of Chicago, October 2016 - January 2017
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February - June 2017
Andreas Haus, Moholy-Nagy: Photographs and Photograms (London, 1980), pl. 39
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Phaidon 55 (London, 2001) p. 55 (this print)
Moholy-Nagy: Future Present (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2016), p. 168 (this print)
Moholy-Nagy - Laboratory of Vision (Tokyo, 2011), unpaginated (this print)
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