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Property from the Descendants of László Moholy-Nagy

László Moholy-Nagy

CH For R1, Space Modulator, Scene from My Lightplay

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May 16, 12:52 AM GMT

Estimate

700,000 - 1,000,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from the Descendants of László Moholy-Nagy

 

László Moholy-Nagy

1895 - 1946 


CH For R1, Space Modulator, Scene from My Lightplay

signed L.Moholy=Nagy three times, titled Space Modulator 42 CHForR1, dated (1942) and inscribed This picture is a colour variation of a scene from my motion picture “Light-display Black White and gray” (on the reverse) 

oil and incising on red Formica 

image: 60 ½ by 23 ⅝ in. 

153.6 by 60 cm. 

Executed in 1942.


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

Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, Chicago and New York (acquired by descent from the artist)

Hattula Moholy-Nagy, Ann Arbor (acquired by descent from the above)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Roberta Smith, “On the Paths of Two Giants, Voyagers in Modernism” The New York Times, 3 November 2006, illustrated in color online (accessed online)

Joyce Tsai, László Moholy-Nagy: Painting after Photography, Oakland, 2018, pp. 144-45, pl. 18, illustrated in color

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum of Non-Objective Painting, In Memoriam, László Moholy-Nagy, 1947, no. 102, p. 35, (titled CH F R-1 and listed as oil on Bakelite)

New York, Kleemann Galleries, The Works of Moholy-Nagy, 1957, no. 33, illustrated (titled Scene from My Light-Play Black-White-Grey)

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Berkeley, University of California Art Museum and Seattle Art Museum, László Moholy-Nagy Retrospective, 1969, no. 54 (titled Space Modulator (“Scene from my Lightplay”))

Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein; Kolnischer Kunstverein and Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Zurich, László Moholy-Nagy, 1974, fig. 138, p. 107, illustrated and p. 148 (titled CHF Space-Modulator); no. 35 (titled Raum-Modulator)

Budapest, Magyar Nemzeti Galeria, László Moholy-Nagy, 1975, no. 17 (titled Tér-Modulátor 1942), n.p., illustrated, (titled Tér-modulator CH For. 1.)

Paris, Centre Pompidou, László Moholy-Nagy, 1976-77, no. 138, p. 107, illustrated in color and pp. 163-64 (titled CHF Space-Modulator)

Valencia, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez; Kassel, Fridericianum Museum and Marseille, Musée Cantini, László Moholy-Nagy, 1991, no. 243 (Valencia); no. 70 (Marseille), p. 533, illustrated in color (titled Modulateaur de l’espace CHF)

London, Annely Juda Fine Art, László Moholy-Nagy, A Life in Motion: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings and Photography, 2004, no. 27, illustrated in color 

Tate Modern, London; Kunsthalle Bielefled and New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World, 2006-07, no. 103, p. 138, illustrated in color (titled CH for R1 Space Modulator)  

Hayama, The Museum of Modern Art; Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art and Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Moholy-Nagy in Motion, 2011, no. V-020, p. 181, illustrated in color (titled Space Modulator CH For R1)

Nice, Musée national Marc Chagall; Biot, Musée national Fernand Léger and Vallauris, Musée national Pablo Picasso, La Guerre et la Paix, Exils, Réminiscences et Nouveaux mondes, 2012, no. 90, p. 131, illustrated in color 

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Paintings of Moholy-Nagy, The Shape of Things to Come, 2015, no. 26, n.p., illustrated in color (titled CH for R1 Space Modulator)    

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Art Institute of Chicago and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Moholy-Nagy: Future Present, 2016-17, no. 290, p. 246, illustrated in color