Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Property from a Private Collection, United States
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
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