A slate letter E over yellow and red bars on raw linen

Coarse unprimed linen is left bare across most of the picture, its weave showing through the paint. A slate-blue letter E stands at the top right, arms squared off. Below it a yellow bar hangs with a notch cut from its upper corner, and a red-orange bar drops beside it, reaching lower. At the left a heavy slate form turns like a bracket, an arm along the top and a long shaft down to a short foot, a thin curve of red showing along it. A compass circle is drawn faintly in pencil at the lower right.

László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) was a Hungarian painter, photographer and designer and one of the defining teachers of the Bauhaus, where he led the preliminary course and the metal workshop from 1923 to 1928. He worked in paint, photography, typography and light, pioneering the cameraless photogram and setting out his ideas in Malerei, Fotografie, Film (1925). Driven out of Germany, he worked in Amsterdam and London before settling in Chicago, where he founded the New Bauhaus in 1937. His work is held by the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Art Institute of Chicago and Tate.

Printed as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.