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Artist: László Moholy-Nagy, American, born Hungary, 1895–1946

G5:1923-26

1926

Oil and pencil on galalith

42 x 52.7 cm (16 9/16 x 20 3/4 in.)
Gift of Collection Société Anonyme
1941.573
Culture: 
Hungarian
Period: 
20th century
Classification: 
Paintings
Status: 
Not on view
Provenance: 

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

Bibliography: 

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

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

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

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).

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

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).

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

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

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, exh. cat. (Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1976), Comp. cit.

Krisztina Passuth, L. Moholy-Nagy, exh. cat. (London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1980), Comp. cit.

Joseph Harris Caton, The Utopian Vision of Moholy-Nagy (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Research Press, 1980).

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.

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.

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.

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

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, exh. cat. (Marseille, France: Musée Cantini Marseille, 1991), 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: Fotogramas 1922–1943, exh. cat. (Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 1997), 54, 160, Comp. cit.

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

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.