El Lissitzky
LISSITZKY, EL
1890 Potschinok/Smolensk - 1941 Moscow
Title:
Proun 5A.
Date:
1919.
Technique:
Lithograph on brownish paper.
Measurement:
27.5 x 26.5cm.
Notation:
Signed.
Frame/Pedestal:
Craftman's frame. Not examined out of the frame.
This hand print by the artist is one of ca. four proofs. The lithograph is one of a total of eleven motifs in the portfolio "Proun" (each on paper with wide margins), of which only six copies are known.
Provenance:
- Publisher and art dealer Maurice van Essche, Antwerp
- Sotheby's, London, auction 17.5.1979, lot 121G (submitted by the great-nephew of the aforementioned)
- Art dealer Wolfgang Wittrock, Düsseldorf
- Hilmar Kopper Collection, Rothenbach
Exhibitions:
- Gallery Maurice van Essche, Antwerp 1923- Art dealer Wolfgang Wittrock, Düsseldorf/Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 1985, cat. no. 58
Literature:
- Lissitzky-Küppers, Sophie: El Lissitzky: Painter, Architect, Typographer, Photographer. Memories, letters, writings, Dresden 1976, cat. rais. no. 26 (here with illustration of the watercolour drawing)
- Nobis, Norbert/Hemken, Kai-Uwe: El Lissitzky, 1890-1941, Retrospective, Frankfurt a. M./Berlin 1988, cat.-no. 37j.
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