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László Moholy-Nagy

Bácsborsód 1895 – 1946 Chicago

Expressionist Composition. 1946

Oil on incised plexiglass plate. 34 × 21,5 cm (13 ⅜ × 8 ½ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: László Moholy-Nagy. Expressionist Composition. 1946.

Estimate:

EUR 120,000

 

- 150,000

USD 135,000

 

- 169,000

Sold for:

137,500 EUR (incl. premium)

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Oil on incised plexiglass plate. 34 × 21,5 cm (13 ⅜ × 8 ½ in.). Signed and dated lower right (incised): L. Moholy-Nagy 46. In white painted object frame.

Ned. L. Pines (until 1990) / Galerie Schlegel, Zurich / Private Collection, Rhineland

László Moholy-Nagy. Valencia, IVAM, Centre Julio Ganzález, Kassel, Fridericianum; Marseille, Musée Cantini, 1991, cat. no. 84, ill. p. 132 / Verschmelzendes Rosa und schwarze Spannung. Werke des osteuropäischen Konstruktivismus aus einer deutschen Privatsammlung. Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, 2001, ill. p. 52 / Von Kandinsky bis Tatlin. Konstruktivismus in Europa. Schwerin, Staatliches Museum; Bonn, Kunstmuseum, 2006, p. 189, ill. p. 121 / László Moholy-Nagy Retrospektive. Frankfurt am Main, Schirn Kunsthalle, 2010, p. 141 ill. / L‘Abstraction en Europe. Saint-Paul, Fondation Maeght, 2011, cat. no. 86, ill. p. 123 / Constructivism in Europe. From Malevich to Kandinsky. Peking, National Art Museum of China, 2012, cat. no. 87, ill. p. 121 / Die Revolution entlässt ihre Bilder: Von Malewitsch bis Kandinsky. Münster, Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso, 2014, cat. no. 50, ill. p. 125

Auction: Property from the Estate of Ned L. Pines. New York, Sotheby‘s, 14.11.1990, cat. no. 294, ill

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