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Property from a Private Collection, United States

László Moholy-Nagy

Mobile Sculpture (Space Modulator)

Auction Closed

May 16, 12:52 AM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, United States


László Moholy-Nagy

1895 - 1946


Mobile Sculpture (Space Modulator)

Plexiglas and chromium rods

height: 32 in.

81.3 cm

Executed in 1943; this work is unique.


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

Suzette Morton Hamill, Chicago (acquired directly from the artist in 1945)

Private Collection, Chicago (acquired by descent from the above)

Acquired from the above circa 2012 by the present owner


Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, Moholy-Nagy, Experiment in Totality: A Biography, New York, 1950, figs. 71-72, pp. 205-06, illustrated

Renate Heyne, Moholy-Nagy, The Photograms, Catalogue Raisonné, Bonn, 2009, p. 295, illustrated (dated 1943-45)

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Art Institute of Chicago and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Moholy-Nagy: Future Present, 2016-17, no. 303, p. 269, illustrated in color and illustrated on the front and back covers