Provenance: Collection of the artist; Sibyl Moholy-Nagy (the artist's wife, upon his death in 1946); Private collector, Dubuque, IA (acquired from Memorial Exhibition Sale, 1950); [Jackson's Auction, Cedar Falls, IA, Lot#1040, October 27, 2010, Sale of property of the above owner]; Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL (acquired from the above sale).
Publication History: "Works of Art by Moholy-Nagy," Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, exhibition pamphlet for Memorial Exhibition, February 6-27, 1950. Listed as No.19, "Vertical Black-Red-Blue," and dated incorrectly as 1942. (Also listed in a price list for the Memorial Show as No.3 @ $250.00)
Exhbition/Loan History: Moholy-Nagy Retrospective Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, July 7 - August 8, 1948 (lent by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy); L.Moholy-Nagy Memorial Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, February 6-27, 1950 (lent by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy)
The artist (1895-1946), Chicago; inherited in 1946 by his wife, Sibyl Moholy-Nagy (1903-1971); [Sale, Memorial Exhibition Sale, 1950]; to Private Collector, Dubuque, IA; [sold in 2010 at Jackson’s Auction, Cedar Falls, IA, October 27, 2010, lot #1040]; [to Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL]; sold in 2013 to LACMA.
