Proun

Prints and Drawings

1920

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

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.: 1920
Medium: Collage of various cut-and-pasted papers, including abrasive paper (prepared with gouache and silver metallic paint), on cream wove paper, laid down on tan laminate board
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower right, in graphite: "E Lissitzky"
Dimensions: 29.9 × 37.9 cm (11 13/16 × 14 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1998.733
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

The Art Institute of Chicago. Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood with commentaries by Debra N. Mancoff (Chicago, 2000), p. 258 (ill.).

Houston, Tex., Contemporary Arts Museum, “The Sphere of Mondrian,” February 27–March 24, 1957, hors cat.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings,” June 11–September 7, 1999, checklist 30 (ill.).
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. 121 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life,” June 11-October 9, 2011.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test”, October 27, 2017 - January 15, 2018, cat. 532, cat. by Matthew Witkovsky and Devin Fore, et. al.

Sold by Rose Fried Gallery (founded in 1940 as The Pinacotheca Gallery), New York (label, verso: The PINACOTHECA 40 E68 8 NY.), to Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

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