Moholy-Nagy, László
American (b. Hungary, 1895-1946)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Two Nudes - positive

1925
gelatin silver print
27.2 x 36.8 cm.
Museum Purchase; ex-collection Sybil Moholy-Nagy
GEH NEG: 8092
81:2163:0037

OLD GEH NUMBER: 4685
NON-GEH NUMBERS: 69 e / 3

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: This image was part of GEH's submission to Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) in 1999.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Film und Foto", Germany, Stuttgart, Wuertt Kunstverein, March - October, 1979.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(stamped) "L. Moholy=Nagy" "Zz Mü Hbf. Güterabf. 1" "Bureau De Paris - Batignolles" (in pencil) "Two Nudes, positive 1925" "69 e" "N (lined out)" "3"

NOTES: Catalogued 3/95, DZ. See also 81:2163:40. "...photograph of two nude women on a beach. The one sitting up is Lucia Moholy; the other on appears in other nude photos in the same series. I am not sure who it is. Verena Clay-Giedion suggested it was someone named Kaethe Achenbach, of whom I know nothing. ... I had always assumed this series was made at a nude beach in Berlin, but this date (1925) suggests Ascona because LMN and Lucia were at the Dessau Bauhaus then. [Hattula Moholy-Nagy, November 1986]

SUBJECTS:
landscape, figures in
study, nudes