Proun

Prints and Drawings

1924–25

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

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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

Sprengel Museum, El Lissitzky, 1890–1941 (Hannover, 1988), p. 279.

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.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Shatter, Rupture, Break”, February 15 - May 3, 2015

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.

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