Harvard Art Museums > 1987.78: Z VI Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Z VI (László Moholy-Nagy) , 1987.78,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 18, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/221677. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1987.78 People László Moholy-Nagy, American (Bacsborsod, Hungary 1895 - 1946 Chicago, Ill., USA) Title Z VI Other Titles Former Title: Z vi Classification Paintings Work Type painting Date 1925 Culture Hungarian Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/221677 Physical Descriptions Medium Oil, ink, and graphite on canvas Dimensions 95.2 x 75.6 cm (37 1/2 x 29 3/4 in.) frame depth: 97 x 76.8 x 2.9 cm (38 3/16 x 30 1/4 x 1 1/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: verso, u.l., black, in artist's hand: L MOHOLY-NAGY inscription: verso, c., black, in artist's hand inscription: verso, l.r., black, in artist's hand: ZVI Provenance Recorded Ownership History [Valentine Gallery, New York]. Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., New York, (by 1936-1945), sold. Frederic Wertham, gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1987. Footnotes: The work was included in an auction of the Chrysler collection (Parke-Bernet, New York, 22 March 1945, cat. no. 102). It is not known whether the work passed directly to the Wertham collection from this auction. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Fredric Wertham Collection, Gift of his wife Hesketh Accession Year 1987 Object Number 1987.78 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Joyce Tsai, The Paintings of Moholy-Nagy: The Shape of Things to Come, exh. cat., Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA, 2015), pp. 16, 32-33, 74-75 (pl. 10), 149, ill. (color) Matthew S. Witkovsky, Carol Eliel, and Carol Vail, ed., Moholy-Nagy: Future Present, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 2016), p. 51, plate 030 Joyce Tsai, László Moholy-Nagy: Painting after Photography, University of California Press (Oakland, CA, 2018), n.p., plate 11, ill. (color) Exhibition History Choate Exhibition of Walter P. Chrysler Collection, Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT, 01/17/1936 - 02/13/1936 Cubism and Abstract Art, The Museum of Modern Art, 03/02/1936 - 04/19/1936 Selected Exhibition of the Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Collection, Detroit Institute of Arts, 01/01/1937 - 12/31/1937 Re-View: European and American Art Since 1900, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/03/2011 - 06/01/2013 The Paintings of Moholy-Nagy: The Shape of Things to Come, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, 07/05/2015 - 09/27/2015 Moholy-Nagy: Future Present, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 05/27/2016 - 09/07/2016; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 10/02/2016 - 01/03/2017; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 02/12/2017 - 06/18/2017 The Bauhaus and Harvard, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/08/2019 - 07/28/2019 Subjects and Contexts The Bauhaus Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
