About This Artwork
El Lissitzky
Russian, 1890-1941
Proun1924-25
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
498 x 650 mm
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"
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, 1998.734
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Cambridge, MA, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, "El Lissitzky," September 26–November 29, 1987, pp. 116 (ill.) and 175,cat. 92, pl. 53.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings," June 11–September 7, 1999, checklist 31.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 170-171, cat. 122 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper," March 24-September 13, 2009, no cat.
Publication History
Sprengel Museum, El Lissitzky, 1890–1941 (Hannover, 1988), p. 279.
Ownership History
Sold by the artist to Galerie Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, Munich, 1926 [Cambridge 1987]. Sold by Otto Stangl, Munich, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, August 17, 1965; given to the Art Institute, 1998.