- Medium
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Oil and pencil on galalith
- Dimensions
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16 9/16 × 20 3/4 in. (42 × 52.7 cm)
- Credit Line
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Gift of Collection Société Anonyme
- Accession Number
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1941.573
- Culture
- Period
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20th century
- Classification
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Provenance
Provenance
In possession of the Societe Anonyme by Autumn 1926, gift of the artist, 1937Bibliography
- Carlotta Castellani, "The Hungarian MA Circle in the Société Anonyme Collection: Sándor Bortnyik, László Moholy-Nagy, and László Péri," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2020–21), 9997–98100, fig. 5
- Matthew S. Witkovsky, Moholy-Nagy: Future Present, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 73
- Ingrid Pfeiffer and Max Hollein, eds., Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Retrospective, exh. cat. (Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle, 2009), 41, fig. 9
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Fotogramas 1922–1943, exh. cat. (Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 1997), 54, 160, Comp. cit.
- Louis Kaplan, ed., Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Biographical Writings (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995),
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Compositions Lumineuses, 1922–1943, exh. cat. (Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1995), Comp. cit.
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, exh. cat. (Marseille, France: Musée Cantini Marseille, 1991), Comp. cit.
- Catherine David, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (Stuttgart, Germany: Gerd Hatje, 1991), Comp. cit.
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo Peri: Zwei Künstler der Ungarischen Avantgarde in Berlin, 1920–1925, exh. cat. (Bremen, Germany: Graphisches Kabinett Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG, 1987), n.p., Comp. cit.
- Robert L. Herbert, Eleanor S. Apter, and Elise K. Kenney, The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1984), 467, no. 479, ill
- Krisztina Passuth, Moholy-Nagy (Budapest: Corvina, 1982),
- Ruth L. Bohan, The Société Anonyme's Brooklyn Exhibition: Katherine Dreier and Modernism in America (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Research Press, 1982), 150
- Joseph Harris Caton, The Utopian Vision of Moholy-Nagy (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Research Press, 1980),
- Krisztina Passuth, L. Moholy-Nagy, exh. cat. (London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1980), Comp. cit.
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, exh. cat. (Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1976), Comp. cit.
- Hannah Weitemeier, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (Stuttgart, Germany: Gerd Hatje, 1974), Comp. cit.
- Krisztina Passuth, Magyar Muveszek as Europai Avantfarde–Ban (Budapest: Corvina, 1974),
- Hans Maria Wingler, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Ausschnitte aus einem Lebenswerk (Berlin: Bauhaus Archiv, 1972), Comp. cit.
- Lucia Moholy, Marginalien zu Moholy-Nagy: Dokumentarische Ungereimtheiten-Moholy-Nagy (Krefeld, Germany: Scherpe, 1972),
- Richard Kostelanetz, Moholy-Nagy (New York: Praeger, 1970),
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, exh. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 1969), Comp cit.
- Hans Maria Wingler, The Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1969),
- Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, Moholy-Nagy: Experiment in Totality (New York: Harper, 1950),
- Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1950), 13, ill
- László Moholy-Nagy, The New Vision: Fundamentals of Design, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture (New York: W. W. Norton, 1938),
Object copyright
© Laszlo Moholy-Nagy/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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