Property from the🧸 Descendants of László Moholy-Nagy
CH For R1, Space Modulat𒊎or, Scene from M𝓡y Lightplay
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Property from the Descendan🌄ts of László Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy
1895 - 1946
CH For R1, Space Modulator, Scene from My Lightplay
signed L.Moholy=Nagy three times, titled Space Modulator 42 CHForR1, dated (1942) and inscribed This picture is a colour variation of a scene from my motion picture “Light-display Black White and gray” (on the reverse)
oil and incising on red Formica
image: 60 ½ by 23 ⅝ in.
153.6 by 60 cm.
Executed in 1942.
The a♒uthenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Hattula Moholy-N🧸agy.
Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, Chicago and New Yor🦹k (acquired by descent from the ar💦tist)
Hattula Moholy-Na🥃gy, Ann Arbor (acquired by descent from the above)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Roberta Smith, “On the Paths of Two Giants, Voyagers in Modernism” The New York Times, 3 November 2006, illustrated in color ꦅonline (accessed online)
Joyce Tsai, László Moholy-Nagy: Painting after Photography, Oakꦫland, 2018, pp. 144-45, pl. 18, illustrated in𒆙 color
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum of Non-Objective Painting, In Memoriam, László Moholy-Nagy, 1947, no. 102, p. 35, (titled CH F R-1 and listed as oil on Bakelite)
New York, Kleemann Galleries, The Works of Moholy-Nagy, 1957, no. 33, illustrated (titled Scene from My Light-Play Black-White-Grey)
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Berkeley, University of California Art Museum and Seattle Art Museum, László Moholy-Nagy Retrospective, 1969, no. 54 (titled Space Modulator (“Scene from my Lightplay”))
Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein; Kolnischer Kunstverein and Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Zurich, László Moholy-Nagy, 1974, fig. 138, p. 107, illustrated and p. 148 (titled CHF Space-Modulator); no. 35 (titled Raum-Modulator)
Budapest, Magyar Nemzeti Galeria, László Moholy-Nagy, 1975, no. 17 (titled Tér-Modulátor 1942), n.p., illustrated, (titled Tér-modulator CH For. 1.)
Paris, Centre Pompidou, László Moholy-Nagy, 1976-77, no. 138, p. 107, illustrated in color and pp. 163-64 (titled CHF Space-Modulator)
Valencia, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez; Kassel, Fridericianum Museum and Marseille, Musée Cantini, László Moholy-Nagy, 1991, no. 243 (Valencia); no. 70 (Marseille), p. 533, illustrated in color (titled Modulateaur de l’espace CHF)
London, Annely Juda Fine Art, László Moholy-Nagy, A Life in Motion: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings and Photography, 2004, no. 27, illustrated in color
Tate Modern, London; Kunsthalle Bielefled and New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World, 2006-07, no. 103, p. 138, illustrated in color (titled CH for R1 Space Modulator)
Hayama, The Museum of Modern Art; Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art and Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Moholy-Nagy in Motion, 2011, no. V-020, p. 181, illustrated in color (titled Space Modulator CH For R1)
Nice, Musée national Marc Chagall; Biot, Musée national Fernand Léger and Vallauris, Musée national Pablo Picasso, La Guerre et la Paix, Exils, Réminiscences et Nouveaux mondes, 2012, no.&nbs❀p;90, p. 131, ill💎ustrated in color
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Paintings of Moholy-Nagy, The Shape of Things to Come, 2015, no. 26, n.p., illustrated in color (titled CH for R1 Space Modulator)
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Art Institute of Chicago and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Moholy-Nagy: Future Present, 2016♉-17, no. 290, p. 246, 🍬illustrated in color
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