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László Moholy-Nagy

Associated Names
László Moholy-Nagy

Artist, American, born Hungary, 1895 - 1946

The image displays a composition of geometric shapes and lines. It includes a red circle intersected by yellow lines, accompanied by vertical forms on a black background. The vertical forms consist of white and black lines, one solid and the other made of adjacent stripes.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collage with watercolor and pen and black ink over graphite on cream paper attached to carbon paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall (approximate): 58.9 x 46.3 cm (23 3/16 x 18 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1982.27.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Tommy Noonan, Kensington, MD, by inheritance.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1983

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., May 1983.

2001

  • A Century of Drawing, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, no. 47.

2015

  • The Shape of Things to Come: László Moholy-Nagy and the Plasticity of Painting, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2015.

2016

  • Moholy-Nagy: Future Present, The Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016-2017.

Bibliography

2001

  • A Century of Drawing. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002: no. 47.

2018

  • Tsai, Joyce. László Moholy-Nagy: Painting after Photography. Oakland and Washington, 2018: color plate 4, 66.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Moholy-Nagy

Wikidata ID

Q64592674

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