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Property of a Private West Coast Collector

László Moholy-Nagy

Space CH2

Auction Closed

November 21, 09:32 PM GMT

Estimate

450,000 - 650,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Private West Coast Collector 

László Moholy-Nagy

1895 - 1946


Space CH2

signed L. Moholy=Nagy, titled and dated (1938) (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

38 by 30 ⅛ in.

96.5 by 76.5 cm.

Executed in 1938.


The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by The Estate of László Moholy-Nagy.

Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin

Kleeman Galleries, New York

Galerie Klihm, Munich (acquired by 1966)

Private Collection, Munich (acquired from the above)

Sotheby’s, London, 20 June 2006, lot 348 (consigned by the above)

Galeria Guillermo de Osma, Madrid (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired from the above in 2009 by the present owner

Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Works of Art by Maholy-Nagy, 1950, no. 44

Essen, Museum Folkwang, László Moholy-Nagy, 1962, illustrated

Munich, Galerie Klihm, Moholy-Nagy, 1966, illustrated

London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Moholy-Nagy, 1968, no. 18, illustrated

Berlin, Bauhaus-Archiv, László Moholy-Nagy, Aussichnitte aus einem Lebenswerk, 1972, no. 36

Stuttgart, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein and Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Zürich, László Moholy-Nagy, 1974-75, no. 27

Madrid, Guillermo de Osma Galeria, Geometrías, 2008

Exh. Cat., New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, In Memoriam László Moholy-Nagy, 1947, pp. 14 and 38, illustrated (titled Space Modulator and dated 1937)