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Proun

A work made of collage of various cut-and-tipped wove papers (prepared with gouache, graphite, and varnish), and brush and pen and black ink, with red watercolor, on cream laminate cardboard.
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  • A work made of collage of various cut-and-tipped wove papers (prepared with gouache, graphite, and varnish), and brush and pen and black ink, with red watercolor, on cream laminate cardboard.

Date:

1924–25

Artist:

El Lissitzky (Lazar Markovich Lissitzky)
Russian, 1890-1941

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

El Lissitzky

Title

Proun

Place

Russia (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1924–1925

Medium

Collage of various cut-and-tipped wove papers (prepared with gouache, graphite, and varnish), and brush and pen and black ink, with red watercolor, on cream laminate cardboard

Inscriptions

Printed label, verso, upper center on mount: EL LISSITZKY"; inscribed in pen and brown ink: "Proun / N 92"; lower right, in graphite: "Bristol–Karton 2"; lower left, in black crayon: "80"

Dimensions

49.8 × 65 cm (19 5/8 × 25 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1998.734

Copyright

© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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