Composition with Circle
Artist
László Moholy-Nagy
(American, born Hungary, 1895 - 1946)
Date1923-1925
MediumPhotogram
DimensionsOverall: 5 x 7 inches (12.7 x 17.78 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.2792
InscribedSignature in pencil
Signed in artist's hand
Verso
MarkingsOn back in pencil (presumably by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy?): “L. Moholy=Nagy / Fotogram [sic] 1921” [The actual date is now considered to be ca. 1923-25.]
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DescriptionAbstract image with dark background. A patterned circle in center of frame with light-colored circle with circular cut-out overlaying it. A light colored arc crosses through the left of the fame, through the large circle, and three diagonal lines to the right of the large circle.ProvenanceHallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1970;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
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