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LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY Composition.
Pencil on cream wove paper, 1939. 275x215 mm; 11x8 1/2 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right recto. Initialed and dated "Nov. 24/39" in pencil, extreme lower right recto.
Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) came to the United States in 1937 at the invitation of Walter Paepcke, the Chairman of the Container Corporation of America, to become the director of the New Bauhaus in Chicago. Unfortunately, the school lost the financial backing of its supporters after only a single academic year, and it closed in 1938. Soon thereafter, with Paepcke's support, Moholy-Nagy opened the School of Design. In 1944, this became the Institute of Design, and in 1949 became a part of Illinois Institute of Technology and the first institution in the United States to offer a PhD in design. Moholy-Nagy died of leukemia in Chicago in 1946.
