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20 László Moholy-Nagy

Bácsborsód 1895 – 1946 Chicago

”Space Modulator Experiment, Aluminium 5”. 1931-35

Multi-Media-object: Oil on incised transparent plastic disk and aluminium plate, mounted on panel painted by the artist. 86,5 × 71 × 8 cm (34 × 28 × 3 ⅛ in.) On the aluminium plate signed and dated lower right (incised): L. Moholy=Nagy 31-35. Signed, titled and dated in pencil on the reverse

Provenance

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (Inv.- no. 1112, presumably sold in the 1960s) / Galerie Schlégl, Zurich (at least until 1991) / Private Collection, Rhineland

EUR 600,000 - 800,000

USD 698,000 - 930,000

Sold for:

1,225,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn 2021

Selected Works, 2 December 2021

Exhibition

László Moholy-Nagy. Valencia, IVAM, Centro Julio González; Kassel, Fridericianum, und Marseille, Musée Cantini, 1991, cat. no. 67, ill. p. 115 / Verschmelzendes Rosa und schwarze Spannung. Werke des osteuropäischen Konstruktivismus aus einer deutschen Privatsammlung. Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, 2001, ill. p. 55 / Von Kandinsky bis Tatlin. Konstruktivismus in Europa. Bonn, Kunstmuseum, 2006, p. 188, ill.. p. 119 / From the Bauhaus to the New World / Vom Bauhaus zur Neuen Welt. Josef Albers and László Moholy-Nagy. London, Tate Modern; Bielefeld, Kunsthalle, and New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2006/07, cat. no. 73, ill. p. 59 / László Moholy-Nagy. Retrospektive. Frankfurt a. M., Schirn-Kunsthalle, 2009/10 / L’abstraction en Europe. Le choix d’un collectionneur allemand. Saint-Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, 2011, cat. no. 87, ill. p. 124 / Constructivism in Europe. From Malevich to Kandinsky. Peking, National Art Museum of China, 2012, cat. no. 88, ill. p. 122 / Die Revolution entlässt ihre Bilder. Von Malewitsch bis Kandinsky. Münster, Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso, 2014, cat. no. 46, ill. p. 122 / Moholy-Nagy. Future Present. New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim; Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, und Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016/17, cat. no. 238, ill. p. 204, p. 194, ill. 9 (detail)

Literature and illustration

Roberta Smith: Moholy-Nagy. Future Present. Vision and Precision in a Fluid Braid (review of the New York 2016 exhibition with a photo of the work; https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/arts/design/moholy-nagy-future-present-vision-and-precision-in-a-fluid-braid.html; query date 22.10.2021) / Ben Davies: The Big Missed Opportunity in the Guggenheim’s László Moholy-Nagy Show. Compared to Moholy-Nagy’s own vision, the Guggenheim show feels genteel (review with a photo of the work in the New York exhibition 2016; see: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/laszlo-moholy-nagy-guggenheim-exhibition-507140; query date 22.10.2021)