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Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, upper left, in black ink: "Moholy=Nagy / Kameraloses / fotografie 1927 [fie in fotograpfie is crossed out and above is written mm]"; verso, upper left, in graphite: "Berlin"; verso, center, in graphite: "X"; stamped verso, upper right, in purple ink: "moholy-nagy/ berlin - chbg. 9/ fredericiastr. 27 atelier"; verso, center right, in purple ink: "foto mohol-nagy"; inscribed verso, center, in graphite: two arrows pointing left and right stretching the length of the paper; verso, center, in graphite: illegible; verso, lower right, in graphite, upside-down: "26 Photograms"; verso, lower center, in graphite: "270 oben links" [270 upper left]
Dimensions
Image/paper: 17.8 × 23.9 cm (7 1/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Julien Levy Collection, Gift of Jean and Julien Levy
Travis, David. 1976. “Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection: Starting with Atget.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago. p. 8, cat. 95.
Hight, Eleanor M. 1985. “Moholy-Nagy: Photography and Film in Weimar Gallery.” Exh. cat. Wellesley College Museum. p. 37, fig. 20.
Hahn, Peter and Jeannine Fiedler. 1990. “Photography at the Bauhaus.” Exh. cat. The MIT Press. p. 263, cat. 412.
Hight, Eleanor M. 1995. “Picturing Modernism-Moholy-Nagy and Photography in Weimar Germany.” MIT Press. p. 91, fig. 41.
Renate Henye and Floris Neususs, Moholy-Nagy: The Photograms, Catalogue Raisonné (Hatje Cantz 2009), fgm 193 (p. 166)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection: Starting with Atget,” December 11, 1976–February 20, 1977; traveled to the International Center of Photography, New York, April 21-May 29, 1977; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, November 4-December 18 1977; Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 13-Ferbruary 26, 1978; Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois, March 16-April 30, 1978; and Cincinnati Art Museum, November 17-December 24, 1978. (David Travis)
Wellesley, Massachusetts, Wellesley College Museum, “Moholy-Nagy, Photography and Film in Weimar Germany,” April 10–June 10, 1985; traveled to Houston, Texas, The Museum of Fine Arts, November 2, 1985–January 5, 1986; Art Institute of Chicago, January 31–April 13, 1986.
Berlin, Germany, Berlinsche Galerie, “Station Der Moderne,” September 25, 1988–January 6, 1989.
Paris, France, Centre Georges Pompidou, “L’invention d’un Art,” October 12, 1989–January 1, 1990.
Berlin, Germany, “Fotografie am Bauhaus (Photography at the Bauhaus),” Bauhaus-Archiv, 4 February-22 April; traveled to Tübingen, Hamburg, Zurich, and Paris into 1991. (possibly just Berlin)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Moholy-Nagy and Present Company,” April 29–September 24, 1995. (David Travis)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Cameraless Wonders,” June 10–November 8, 2000. (Elizabeth Siegel)
Chicago, Illinois, Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA), “Moholy: An Education of the Senses,” February 10–May 9, 2010.
New York, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, “Moholy_Nagy: Future Present,” May 25-September 7, 2016; traveled to Art Institute of Chicago, October 2, 2016-January 3, 2017; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 8-June 18, 2017.
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