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Collections

László Moholy-Nagy
Diary of a Fly1946

Not on view
Abstract drawing in black dashes, blue and orange dots, and two yellow triangles on cream paper, with handwritten inscriptions in lower corners
Artist or Maker
László Moholy-Nagy
Hungary, also active Germany and United States, 1895-1946,
Title
Diary of a Fly
Date Made
1946
Medium
Ink and crayon on paper
Dimensions
10 × 12 in. (25.4 × 30.5 cm)
Credit Line
Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number
M.2005.70.87
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Provenance
Sybil Moholy-Nagy, Chicago; Collection of Eleanore and Daniel Saidenberg, New York; Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles, from May 1990, partial, fractional and promised gift 2005 to; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Barron, Stephanie. Envisioning Modernism: The Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2012.
  • Witkovsky, Matthew S., Carol S. Eliel, and Karole P.B. Vail, eds. Moholy-Nagy: Future Present. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2016.