LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and incising on rhodoïd mounted by the artist on painted panel

Size Notes:

panel; Rhodoïd: 78.9 x 64.1 cm

Markings:

signed titled and dated 'L. MOHOLY=NAGY SRho 1 (1936)' (on the reverse of the rhodoïd); signed, inscribed, titled, dated and marked with a diagram 'L. Moholy=Nagy Rhodoid (schwarz) SRho 1 (1936)' (on the reverse of the panel)

Exhibited:

London, Tate Modern; Kuntshalle Bielefeld and New York, Whitney Museum of Art, Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World , March 2006-January 2007, p. 135, no. 98 (illustrated in color, p. 134). Berlin, Galerie Berinson, Bauhaus , May-August 2008. Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, László Moholy-Nagy: Retrospective , October 2009-February 2010, p. 183 (illustrated in color, p. 146). Madrid, Círculo de Bellas Artes PHE10; Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag and Ludwig Múzeum Budapest, László Moholy-Nagy: The Art of Light , June 2010-September 2011, p. 255 (illustrated in color, p. 185)

Provenance:

Felix Witzinger, Switzerland (acquired from the artist, 1936) . Private collection, Switzerland (by descent from the above); sale, Christie's, London, 8 February 2005, lot 371. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner