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Collection Online as of March 29, 2024

Eiffel Tower, Paris

Eiffel Tower, Paris

1925
(American, 1895–1946)
Image: 28.1 x 21.1 cm (11 1/16 x 8 5/16 in.); Paper: 29.2 x 21 cm (11 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 45.7 cm (22 x 18 in.)
© Estate of László Moholy-Nagy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Location: not on view

Did You Know?


According to László Moholy-Nagy, photography offered an entirely new way of seeing, an “unprejudiced optical view.”

Description

Moholy’s Eiffel Tower is disorienting, framed to eliminate any horizon line or context. Smaller, lighter cameras that appeared in the 1920s encouraged odd vantage points such as bird’s- and worm’s-eye views. Moholy and others employed them to shock viewers into understanding the new relationship between man and space exemplified by the airplane and skyscraping structures like the Eiffel Tower.
  • Collection of Hattula Moholy-Nagy (daughter)
    (The Halsted Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI)
    September 15, 1997
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Moholy-Nagy, László. Photographs of Moholy-Nagy from the Collection of William Larson. [Claremont, Calif.]: Galleries of the Claremont Colleges, 1975. Cat. No. 33
    Moholy-Nagy, László. László-Moholy Nagy: Musée Cantini, Marseille, 5 juillet-15 septembre 1991. [Marseille]: Musées de Marseille, 1991. p. 531, repr. p. 236.
    Cleveland Museum of Art, “Major African Sculpture, Recent Mark Tansey Painting, and Other Works of Art Enter CMA Collection,” September 16, 1997, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
    Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 309
    Bru, Sascha. The European Avant-Gardes, 1905-1935: A Portable Guide. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. Mentioned: P. x; Reproduced: P. 95, fig. 35
    Fraquelli, Simonetta , Alexandra Cox, and Caroline Schmidt. Robert Delaunay and the City of Lights. [Zürich, Switzerland]: Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft/Kunsthaus Zürich; Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag, [2018] Reproduced and mentioned: p. 140, fig. 5
  • Moholy: An Education of the Senses. Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL (organizer) (February 10-May 9, 2010).
    László Moholy-Nagy. Musée Cantini, Marseille, France (July 5–September 15, 1991).
    Photographs of Moholy-Nagy from the Collection of William Larson. Galleries of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA (April 4–May 8, 1975), San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA (July 8–August 24, 1975), University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (September 28–November 2, 1975).
  • {{cite web|title=Eiffel Tower, Paris|url=false|author=László Moholy-Nagy|year=1925|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1997.144