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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN COLLECTION
LASZLO MOHOLY-NAGY (1895-1946)
Drei Elemente
Details
LASZLO MOHOLY-NAGY (1895-1946)
Drei Elemente
signed 'Moholy=Nagy' (lower right)
gouache and paper collage on black paper
17 1⁄8 x 12 ½ in. (43 x 31.5 cm.)
Executed in 1922
Drei Elemente
signed 'Moholy=Nagy' (lower right)
gouache and paper collage on black paper
17 1⁄8 x 12 ½ in. (43 x 31.5 cm.)
Executed in 1922
Provenance
Carl Laszlo, Basel (by 1971, until at least 1981).
Christian Bernet, Munich (by 1991).
Private collection, Munich (by descent from the above).
Carl Laszlo, Basel (acquired from the above).
Private collection, Switzerland (by descent from the above, 2013); sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 February 2016, lot 138.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Christian Bernet, Munich (by 1991).
Private collection, Munich (by descent from the above).
Carl Laszlo, Basel (acquired from the above).
Private collection, Switzerland (by descent from the above, 2013); sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 February 2016, lot 138.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Moholy-Nagy Foundation, Moholy-Nagy Art Database, www.moholy-nagy.org (accessed September 2025; illustrated in color).
Exhibited
Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Tendenzen der Zwanziger Jahre, August-October 1977, no. 1-222.
Saint-Etienne, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie and Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, L'art en Hongrie: 1905-1930, art et révolution, January 1980-January 1981, p. 88, no. 16.
Valencia, Centre Julio Gonzalez and Marseille, Musée Cantini, Moholy-Nagy, February-September 1991, no. 57.
Dresden, Albertinum, Abstrakt: Der Deutsche Künstlerbund in Dresden, September-November 1993, p. 108.
Saint-Etienne, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie and Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, L'art en Hongrie: 1905-1930, art et révolution, January 1980-January 1981, p. 88, no. 16.
Valencia, Centre Julio Gonzalez and Marseille, Musée Cantini, Moholy-Nagy, February-September 1991, no. 57.
Dresden, Albertinum, Abstrakt: Der Deutsche Künstlerbund in Dresden, September-November 1993, p. 108.
Brought to you by
Margaux Morel
Associate Vice President, Specialist and Head of the Day and Works on Paper sales