G5:1923-26

1926

Oil and pencil on galalith

42 × 52.7 cm (16 9/16 × 20 3/4 in.)

Gift of Collection Société Anonyme

1941.573

Status:

Not on view

Culture:

Hungarian

Period:

20th century

Classification:

Paintings

Provenance:

In possession of the Societe Anonyme by Autumn 1926, gift of the artist, 1937

Bibliography:

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.

Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1950), 13, ill.

Ingrid Pfeiffer and Max Hollein, eds., Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Retrospective, exh. cat. (Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle, 2009), 41, fig. 9.

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.

Krisztina Passuth, Moholy-Nagy (Budapest: Corvina, 1982).

László Moholy-Nagy, The New Vision: Fundamentals of Design, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture (New York: W. W. Norton, 1938).

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Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, Moholy-Nagy: Experiment in Totality (New York: Harper, 1950).

Krisztina Passuth, Magyar Muveszek as Europai Avantfarde–Ban (Budapest: Corvina, 1974).

Hannah Weitemeier, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (Stuttgart, Germany: Gerd Hatje, 1974), Comp. cit.

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Hans Maria Wingler, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Ausschnitte aus einem Lebenswerk (Berlin: Bauhaus Archiv, 1972), Comp. cit.

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Richard Kostelanetz, Moholy-Nagy (New York: Praeger, 1970).

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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Compositions Lumineuses, 1922–1943, exh. cat. (Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1995), Comp. cit.

Louis Kaplan, ed., Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Biographical Writings (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995).

Catherine David, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (Stuttgart, Germany: Gerd Hatje, 1991), Comp. cit.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Fotogramas 1922–1943, exh. cat. (Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 1997), 54, 160, Comp. cit.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, exh. cat. (Marseille, France: Musée Cantini Marseille, 1991), Comp. cit.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, exh. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 1969), 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.

Matthew S. Witkovsky, Moholy-Nagy: Future Present, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 73.

Carlotta Castellani, “The Hungarian MA Circle in the Société Anonyme Collection: Sándor Bortnyik, László Moholy-Nagy, and László Péri,” Yale Review (2020–2021): 94–103, fig. 5.

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