El Lissitzky
Proun I

ArtistRussian, 1890–1941
Print studioHannover, Germany
PublisherHannöver, Germany
CultureRussian
Titles
  • Proun I
  • from the 1. Kestnermappe (The First Kestner Porfolio)
Datepublished 1923
Published inHannover, Germany
Printed inHannover, Germany
MediumLithograph in black and gray on wove paper, edition of 50
DimensionsSheet: 23 3/8 × 17 1/16 in. (59.4 × 43.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Aggie Foster and the Alvin S. Romansky Prints & Drawings Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2016.19
Non exposé

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Object Type
Provenance[Alice Adam, Chicago, by August 2015-2016]; purchased by MFAH, 2016.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed in graphite, lower left: El Lissitzky
Verso: [not accessible]
Recto: Signed in graphite, lower left: El Lissitzky
Verso: [not accessible]
None [verso not accessible]
Catalogue raisonnéNisbet 57

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