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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.).
This picture shows the following artwork: László Moholy-Nagy. ”Space Modulator Experiment, Aluminium 5”. 1931-35.

Estimate:

EUR 600,000

 

- 800,000

USD 698,000

 

- 930,000

Sold for:

1,225,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn 2021

Selected Works, Thursday, 02.12.2021

Information

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. Catalogue raisonné: Accompanied by a confirmation by Hattula Moholy-Nagy, daughter of the artist, Ann Arbor, dated 22 June 2021. The plastic disk was expertly replaced 2015 due to aging. In places with scuff marks.

The plastic disk was expertly replaced 2015 due to aging. In places with scuff marks

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

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)

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)

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