As of Nov 09, 2021

László Moholy-Nagy

Lot 20
”Space Modulator Experiment, Aluminium 5”, 1931
Multi-Media-object: Oil on incised transparent plastic disk and aluminium plate, mounted on panel painted by the artist

34.1 x 28.0 x 3.1 in (86.5 x 71.0 x 8.0 cm)

Lot 20
”Space Modulator Experiment, Aluminium 5”, 1931
Multi-Media-object: Oil on incised transparent plastic disk and aluminium plate, mounted on panel painted by the artist
34.1 x 28.0 x 3.1 in (86.5 x 71.0 x 8.0 cm)

Estimate:
€ 600,000 - 800,000
Auction: -847 days

Grisebach GmbH

Auction: Dec 02, 2021
Auction number: 336
Auction name: From Emil Nolde to Kennteh Noland – Selected Works

Lot Details
On the aluminium plate signed and dated lower right (incised): L. Moholy=Nagy 31-35. Signed, titled and dated in pencil on the reverse
László Moholy-Nagy. Valencia, IVAM, Centro Julio González; Kassel, Fridericianum, und Marseille, Musée Cantini, 1991, cat. no. 67, ill. p. 115 / Verschmelzendes Rosa und schwarze Spannung. Werke des osteuropäischen Konstruktivismus aus einer deutschen Privatsammlung. Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, 2001, ill. p. 55 / Von Kandinsky bis Tatlin. Konstruktivismus in Europa. Bonn, Kunstmuseum, 2006, p. 188, ill.. p. 119 / From the Bauhaus to the New World / Vom Bauhaus zur Neuen Welt. Josef Albers and László Moholy-Nagy. London, Tate Modern; Bielefeld, Kunsthalle, and New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2006/07, cat. no. 73, ill. p. 59 / László Moholy-Nagy. Retrospektive. Frankfurt a. M., Schirn-Kunsthalle, 2009/10 / L’abstraction en Europe. Le choix d’un collectionneur allemand. Saint-Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, 2011, cat. no. 87, ill. p. 124 / Constructivism in Europe. From Malevich to Kandinsky. Peking, National Art Museum of China, 2012, cat. no. 88, ill. p. 122 / Die Revolution entlässt ihre Bilder. Von Malewitsch bis Kandinsky. Münster, Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso, 2014, cat. no. 46, ill. p. 122 / Moholy-Nagy. Future Present. New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim; Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, und Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016/17, cat. no. 238, ill. p. 204, p. 194, ill. 9 (detail)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (Inv.- no. 1112, presumably sold in the 1960s) / Galerie Schlégl, Zurich (at least until 1991) / Private Collection, Rhineland
The plastic disk was expertly replaced 2015 due to aging. In places with scuff marks
Lot Details
On the aluminium plate signed and dated lower right (incised): L. Moholy=Nagy 31-35. Signed, titled and dated in pencil on the reverse
László Moholy-Nagy. Valencia, IVAM, Centro Julio González; Kassel, Fridericianum, und Marseille, Musée Cantini, 1991, cat. no. 67, ill. p. 115 / Verschmelzendes Rosa und schwarze Spannung. Werke des osteuropäischen Konstruktivismus aus einer deutschen Privatsammlung. Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, 2001, ill. p. 55 / Von Kandinsky bis Tatlin. Konstruktivismus in Europa. Bonn, Kunstmuseum, 2006, p. 188, ill.. p. 119 / From the Bauhaus to the New World / Vom Bauhaus zur Neuen Welt. Josef Albers and László Moholy-Nagy. London, Tate Modern; Bielefeld, Kunsthalle, and New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2006/07, cat. no. 73, ill. p. 59 / László Moholy-Nagy. Retrospektive. Frankfurt a. M., Schirn-Kunsthalle, 2009/10 / L’abstraction en Europe. Le choix d’un collectionneur allemand. Saint-Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, 2011, cat. no. 87, ill. p. 124 / Constructivism in Europe. From Malevich to Kandinsky. Peking, National Art Museum of China, 2012, cat. no. 88, ill. p. 122 / Die Revolution entlässt ihre Bilder. Von Malewitsch bis Kandinsky. Münster, Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso, 2014, cat. no. 46, ill. p. 122 / Moholy-Nagy. Future Present. New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim; Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, und Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016/17, cat. no. 238, ill. p. 204, p. 194, ill. 9 (detail)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (Inv.- no. 1112, presumably sold in the 1960s) / Galerie Schlégl, Zurich (at least until 1991) / Private Collection, Rhineland
The plastic disk was expertly replaced 2015 due to aging. In places with scuff marks

1 other work by László Moholy-Nagy
13 days | Sotheby's
László Moholy-Nagy
29 'Ellen Frank' , 1928
gelatin silver print, titled in ink and with the photographer's 'Berlin' stamp on the reverse, framed

€ 46,000 - 65,000

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