A grained slab over black on scarlet

Scarlet fills the sheet. A black rectangle stands upright at the centre, and over it lies a larger slab worked in dense pencil grain that shifts from near-black at the top to pale scraped grey below. A cream band runs steeply down the left, and a black line runs beside it at a sharper angle. Two soft red bars cross the middle from the left, one meeting the grained slab and one passing behind it, and a hard red diagonal cuts down through the slab itself. Signed 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.