Lot
359
Potschinok/Smolensk 1890 – 1941 Moscow
Umschlagentwurf zum Buch „Das Huhn, das einen Kamm haben wollte“. 1919
Estimate:
EUR 7,000
- 9,000
USD 9,350
- 12,020
Sold for:
32,940 EUR (incl. premium)
Auctions 187-192
Classical Modern Art, Friday, 25.11.2011
Our drawing is the original design for the cover of the book „Di hun, vos hot gevolt hobn a kam“ (The hen, that wanted a crest), published in 1919 by Yidisher Folks-Farlag in Kiev and St. Petersburg. The author of this fairy tale was Ben Zion Raskin, with whom El Lissitzky published several books..
Lot
15
”Proun (1919-1923) 1. Kestnermappe”. 1923
Estimate:
EUR 150,000
- 250,000
Sold for:
EUR 431,800
Lot
30
Ohne Titel – Proun. 1921/22
Estimate:
EUR 50,000
- 70,000
Sold for:
EUR 59,500
Lot
269
Figurines by Michail Plaksin for the Soviet Pavillon in the section "Die Frau und die Presse" of the International Press Exhibition, "Pressa“, in Cologne. Exhibitions architect: El Lissitzky. Trial exhibition in the State Department Store GUM, Moskau. 1928
Estimate:
EUR 3,500
- 5,500
Sold for:
EUR 3,750
Lot
2068
Belarus. Design for a double page in the magazine „USSR under construction“. Circa 1937
Estimate:
EUR 5,000
- 7,000
Sold for:
EUR 6,250