Photographs
Photographs
Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
László Moholy-Nagy
'Ellen Frank'
Lot Closed
April 10, 03:38 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
László Moholy-Nagy
1895 - 1946
'Ellen Frank'
gelatin silver print, titled in ink and with the photographer's 'Berlin' stamp on the reverse, framed
image: 9⅜ by 6⅞ in. (23.8 by 17.5 cm.)
frame: 21⅞ by 18½ in. (55.6 by 47 cm.)
Executed circa 1928-32.
The family of Ellen Frank, Germany
Houk Friedman Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 1997 by the present owner
This print:
Eleanor Hight, Moholy-Nagy: Photography and Film in Weimar Germany (Wellesley, 1985), cover
Eleanor Hight, Picturing Modernism: Moholy-Nagy and Photography in Weimar Germany (Cambridge, 1995), p. 145
Douglas Fogle and Hannake Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection (New York, 2021), pp. 373 and 417
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