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Materials:
porcelain enamel on steel
Measurements:
37.48 in. (95.20 cm.) (height) by 23.74 in. (60.30 cm.) (width)
Description:
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Markings:
Signed L. MOHOLY NAGY, dated 1922 signed again MOHOLY, titled Em 1 and dated ( 1923) (on the reverse)
Exhibited:
Berlin, Der Sturm,. Moholy-Nagy , 1924. . Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Santa Barbara, Museum of Art; Berkeley, University Art Museum & Seattle, Seattle Art Museum,. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy , 1969, no. 7, illustrated in the catalogue. Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein; Cologne, Kölnischer Kunstverein & Zürich, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy , 1974-75, no. 27, illustrated in the catalogue . Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou & Centre de Création Industrielle au Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy , 1976-77, no. 27, illustrated in the catalogue . London, Tate Modern; Bielefeld, Germany, Kunshtalle Bielefeld & New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Albers and Moholy-Nagy from the Bauhaus to the New World , 2006-07, no. 18, illustrated in color in the catalogue New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago & Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Moholy-Nagy , Future Present , 2016, no. 49, illustrated in color in the catalogue (exhibited only in New York) .
Literature:
Sibyl Moholy-Nagy,. Moholy-Nagy ,. Experiment in Totality , 1950, New York, mentioned p. 30 & illustrated in a photograph, fig. 14, p. 31. I Moholy-Nagy (exhibition catalogue),. Arts Council of Great Britain; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh & Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1980, illustrated p. 31. . Krisztina Passuth,. Moholy-Nagy , New York, 1985, mentioned pp. 31-33 & illustrated in an exhibition photo from Berlin Der Sturm 1924 exhibition p. 371
Provenance:
Jan van der Marck, Huntington Woods, Michigan. . Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne. . Acquired from the above in 1987.