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

TITLE ON OBJECT: "Two Nudes" - negative

1925
gelatin silver print
27.2 x 37.4 cm.
Museum Purchase; ex-collection Sybil Moholy-Nagy
GEH NEG: 8091
81:2163:0040

OLD GEH NUMBER: 4685
NON-GEH NUMBERS: 69 eN / 50b

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

INSCRIPTION: verso-(signed) "L. Moholy=Nagy 1925" (in pencil) "'Two nudes' negative" "69 eN" "50b" "fig. 5 (circled)" (stamped) "Zz Mü Hbf. Güterabf.1" "Bureau De ... gnolles"

NOTES: Catalogued 3/95, DZ. See also 81:2163:37. "...photograph of two nude women on a beach. The one sitting up is Lucia Moholy; the other one 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. The back of the negative print is signed "L. Moholy=Nagy" and dated 1925 in his hand. I had always assumed this series was made at a nude beach in Berlin, but this date suggests Ascona because LMN and Lucia were at the Dessau Bauhaus then. [Hattula Moholy-Nagy, November 1986]

SUBJECTS:
landscape, figures in
study, nudes