László Moholy-Nagy — Composition A XX in a Paris Museum Gallery

5 October 2017 · Paris

Composition A XX, painted by László Moholy-Nagy in 1924, hangs in a Paris museum gallery against a plain white wall. The work is pure Bauhaus Constructivism: overlapping circles and diagonal planes in black, grey, and cream, arranged on a pale ground that makes the geometry read as both mechanical and weightless. The small wall label beside it underscores how much the painting holds its own space — Moholy-Nagy's geometric abstraction needs no introduction, but earns one anyway.