Leda und der Schwan (Leda and the Swan)

Leda und der Schwan (Leda and the Swan)

Photograph

László Moholy-Nagy

Maker
American, b. Hungary, 1895–1946

Leda und der Schwan (Leda and the Swan)

1925
Collage with gelatin silver prints, pencil, and ink
Image: 25 9/16 × 18 1/2 in. (64.9 × 47 cm)
Matted: 33 15/16 × 26 × 1/4 in. (86.2 × 66 × 0.7 cm)
Purchase with funds from Eastman Kodak Company
1981.2163.0050
Inscriptions inscribed in pencil recto, BLC: Leda und der Schwan (1925)

signed in pencil recto, BRC: Moholy=Nagy

stamped verso: moholy-nagy moholy-nagy berlin-chbg. 9 \ fredericiastr. 27 atelier

inscribed in red ink verso: leda und der Schwan. (der ungekehrte mythos) fotoplastik 1925 kinoplakat hier wird keine Schwanerei geduldet
[addtional pencil notations in German]

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