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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

László Moholy-Nagy

Kinder in Ascona

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April 10, 03:39 PM GMT

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50,000 - 70,000 USD

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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

László Moholy-Nagy

1895 - 1946

Kinder in Ascona


gelatin silver print, framed, Musée Cantini and IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez exhibition labels and an Edwynn Houk Gallery label on the reverse

image: 15⅛ by 11⅛ in. (38.4 by 28.3 cm.)

frame: 26¾ by 21¾ in. (67.9 by 55.2 cm.)

Executed in 1926.

Witkin Gallery, New York

Private Collection, Germany

Edwynn Houk, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Valencia, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Moholy-Nagy, February – April 1991; and traveling to: Kassel, Fridericianum Musum, April – June 1991; Marseilles Musée Cantini, June – September 1991

The Art of Light: László Moholy-Nagy (Madrid, 2011), p. 66

Carol S. Eliel Witkovsky and Karole P. B. Vail, Future Present: Moholy-Nagy (The Art Institute of Chicago, 2017), p. 123

Douglas Fogle and Hannake Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection (New York, 2021), pp. 337 and 417