The Modern Eye: Photographs 1917 - 1939

9 April - 16 May 2015

László Moholy-Nagy

Marseille, Rue Canebière, 1929

Gelatin silver enlargement print on warm-toned, matte surface paper

20 x 15 3/4 inches
51.3 x 40 cm

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Printed c. 1929. Signed "L. Moholy-Nagy," titled, dated, and inscribed, in ink, on verso.

Provenance

Provenance: László Moholy-Nagy, Chicago John Marshall, NY (Rockefeller Foundation) Sotheby's, NY (April 1995) Private collection, NY

Literature

Andreas Haus, Photographs and Photograms (New York, 1980), pl. 12; Leland Rice & David W. Steadman, Photographs of Moholy-Nagy from the Collection of William Larson (Claremont College, 1975), p. 50; Herbert Molderings & Floris Neusüss, Photogramme 1922-1943 (Munich, 1995), p. 195; Olivia Maria Rubelo, Vincenzo Vitiello, et al., László Moholy-Nagy, The Art of Light (Madrid: Circulo de Bellas Artes, 2010), p. 41.