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Marseille, Rue Canebière

Artist László Moholy-Nagy (American, born Hungary, 1895 - 1946)
Date1928
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 11 9/16 × 8 7/8 inches (29.37 × 22.54 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4288
Signednone
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn sheet verso, top, in pencil: "y"; On sheet verso, lower left corner, in pencil: "71763".
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionAerial view of a city street with many automobiles and people on the road seen through the pattern of a decorative iron fence.Exhibition History
New Acquisitions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection, 1980-1983. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 1 –  May 1, 1983.


Photographers of the Weimar Republic
, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, January 30 – March 16, 1986, no cat.

Art by Chance: Fortuitous Impressions, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 22 – September 3, 1989, no cat.

Rotation 6. The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 13 – December 7, 2009, no cat.

World War One and the Rise of Modernism. The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 9 – October 18, 2015, no cat.




Gallery Label

László Moholy-Nagy took this photograph from an elevated perspective and through the blurred grillwork of a balcony. This photograph compresses foreground and background together. The effect is an image that is optically true yet alien to common visual experience. The vantage point transforms an ordinary street scene into a dynamic interplay of forms. Such experimentation characterizes the approach of Moholy-Nagy, who was fascinated by photography’s expressive range and used a variety of unusual techniques.

Provenance
Sybil Moholy-Nagy;
with Inge Bondi, New York, NY by 1970;
Purchased from Inge Bondi by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1970; [1]
Marvin Gates, Kansas City, MO;
Consigned by Marvin Gates to Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO;
Purchased from Morgan Gallery by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1983;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
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Rothenburg ob der Tauber
László Moholy-Nagy
1928
2005.27.306
Oxford
László Moholy-Nagy
ca. 1936
2005.27.2791
Composition with Circle
László Moholy-Nagy
1923-1925
2005.27.2792
Nude
László Moholy-Nagy
ca. 1926
2005.27.4289
Parking Lot, Chicago
László Moholy-Nagy
1937
2005.27.2795
Self-portrait: Lighting Cigarette
László Moholy-Nagy
1926; printed later
2005.27.2794
Berlin
György Kepes
1930
2005.27.4175
Scene along skid row, Howard Street, San Francisco
Dorothea Lange
February 1937
2005.27.4187
Apartment Hill
Wayne Thiebaud
1980
F86-4
Oblivion 15N
David Maisel
2004; printed 2008
2009.37.3