LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY (1895-1946)

Lot 86
01.03.2022 13:00UTC +00:00
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Starting price
£ 700 000
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ID 717751
Lot 86 | LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY (1895-1946)
Estimate value
£ 700 000 – 1 000 000
LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY (1895-1946)

Composition G4

signed, dated and inscribed 'Moholy=Nagy zu Galalithbild G4 (26)' (on the reverse of the paper); signed again, dated and inscribed 'MOHOLY=NAGY G26' (on the backboard)

oil on red Galalith over India ink and wash on paper

15 3⁄4 x 19 5⁄8 in. (40 x 49.6 cm.)

Executed in 1926







Provenance

Private collection, Zurich, by whom acquired directly from the artist, by 1934, and thence by descent; sale, Christie’s, London, 4 February 2014, lot 11.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.





Literature

Exh. cat., Albers and Moholy-Nagy: from the Bauhaus to the New World, Tate Modern, London, 2006, no. 13, p. 18 (illustrated; titled ‘Composition’, dated '1925-1927' and with incorrect medium).

A. Schulz Marty, ‘Eine Galalithplatte als Gestaltungmedium und Bildträger im Werk ‘Composition G4‘ von László Moholy-Nagy‘, in Zeitschrift für Kunsttechnologie und Konservierung, vol. I, Worms, 2007, pp. 33-37 (illustrated pp. 33-35; details illustrated p. 36).





Exhibited

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Abstrakte und surrealistische Malerei und Plastik, October - November 1929, no. 89, p. 18 (titled 'G IV'; with incorrect dimensions).

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Neue Deutsche Malerei, June - July 1934, no. 84, p. 12 (titled 'G IV'; dated '1925-1926').

Zurich, Galerie Orlando, Das Bauhaus, Weimar, Dessau, Berlin und The New Bauhaus Chicago, April - October 2005, p. 54 (illustrated; titled 'Composition'; dated 'circa 1921' and with incorrect medium).





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