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El Lissitzky

Potschinok/Smolensk 1890 – 1941 Moscow

Belarus. Design for a double page in the magazine „USSR under construction“. Circa 1937

Vintage. Gelatin silver print of a photomontage. 15 × 23,2 cm (17,7 × 23,8 cm) (5 ⅞ × 9 ⅛ in. (7 × 9 ⅜ in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: El Lissitzky. Belarus. Design for a double page in the magazine „USSR under construction“. Circa 1937.

Estimate:

EUR 5,000

 

- 7,000

USD 5,340

 

- 7,470

Sold for:

6,250 EUR (incl. premium)

Spring Auctions 2017

Photography, Wednesday, 31.05.2017

Information

Vintage. Gelatin silver print of a photomontage. 15 × 23,2 cm (17,7 × 23,8 cm) (5 ⅞ × 9 ⅛ in. (7 × 9 ⅜ in.)). With retouchings and slight handling marks.

Jen Lissitzky / Gallery Priska Pasquer, Cologne, 1997 to the current owner

USSR im Bau. No. 9-10-11-12. German Edition. Moscow 1937, unpaginated (variation) / Gabriele Gorzka: Kultur im Stalinismus. Sowjetische Kultur und Kunst der 1930er bis 50er Jahre. Bremen 1994, p. 210 (variation) / Margarita Tupitsyn: The Soviet photograph 1924-1937. New Haven 1996, p. 104 (variation) / Margarita Tupitsyn: El Lissitzky. Jenseits der Abstraktion. Fotografie, Design, Abstraktion. Munich et al 1999, p. 178–179, ill. 115 (Maquette for USSR im Bau)

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