Constructivist Composition

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Object Details

Artist
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, American, b. Bácsborsod, Hungary, 1895–1946
Date
1923
Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor and graphite pencil on paper
Dimensions
17 1/8 x 13 7/8 in. (43.4 x 35.2 cm)
Collection Object Type
Painting
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest, 1981
Accession Number
86.3271

Mrs. Kay Hillman, New York
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York and Washington DC (acquired from Mrs. Kay Hillman), to 31 August 1981
Estate of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1981-1986
Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest, 1981
ALBERT LOEB AND KRUGIER GALLERY, New York [exhibition date unknown; see file for further info.]
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Selections from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest," 7 August-16 November 1986, unpublished checklist, no. 31.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Dreams and Nightmares: Utopian Visions in Modern Art," 8 December 1983-12 February 1984, no. 52, p. 87.
CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Washington, DC. "Modernism: Designing a New World," 17 March-29 July 2007.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Josef Albers: Innovation and Inspiration," 13 February-11 April 2010, no cat.

FINCH, CHRISTOPHER. Twentieth-Century Watercolors (New York: Abbeville Press, 1988), no. 170, p. 145.

Signature
Signed LR In Pencil: L. Moholy-Nagy
Inscriptions
No Inscriptions

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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