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Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, upper right, in black ink: "Photograph by Moholy-Nagy"; stamped verso, upper right, in black ink: "Courtesy of Julien Levy Gallery"; verso, upper right, in black ink: "JULIEN LEVY GALLERY / 602 MADISON AVENUE / NEW YORK CITY"; inscribed verso, lower right, in grey ink: "Moholy-nagy"; stamped verso, lower right, in purple ink: "foto moholy-nagy"; verso, lower right, in purple ink: "moholy-nagy/ berlin - chbg. 9/ fredericiastr. 27 atelier"; inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "687.1977"
Dimensions
29.9 × 23.9 cm (11 13/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Julien Levy Collection, Gift of Jean and Julien Levy
Hight, Eleanor M. 1985. “Moholy-Nagy: Photography and Film in Weimar Gallery.” Exh. cat. Wellesley College Museum. p. 103. fig. 71.
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.
University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, “Photographers of the Weimar Republic,” October 2–November 16, 1986; traveled to State University of New York at Purchase, Neuberger Museum, January 25–March 29, 1987.
Spain, Valencia, IVAM Centre Julio González, “László Moholy-Nagy,” 11 February -7 April; traveled to Germany, Kassel, Museum Fredericianum, 21 April-16 June; France, Marseilles, Musée Cantini, 5 July-15 September.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Moholy-Nagy and Present Company,” April 29-September 24, 1995. (David Travis)
London, England, Tate Modern, “Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From Bauhaus to the New World,” March 9–June 4, 2006; traveled to Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany, June 15–October 15, 2006; New York, NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, October 31, 2006–January 1, 2007.
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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