Four crosses on ochre, from outline to solid red

An ochre ground carries four crossed forms at four degrees of weight. A thin one is drawn in outline only at the upper right, tilted off square. A broad grey cross lies at the centre right, its arms flat and matt. A heavy red cross overlaps it, running down from the top and out to the left edge. Smallest and brightest, a short white cross sits where the red arms meet, its surface faintly granular. Nothing else interrupts the ochre, and the shapes cast no shadow.

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.