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El Lissitzky

Potschinok/Smolensk 1890 – 1941 Moscow

”Proun (1919-1923) 1. Kestnermappe”. 1923

Original cardboard portfolio with text sheet/imprint and six lithographs, of which three coloured and two collaged, each on wove paper. Portfolio: 61 × 45 cm (24 × 17 ¾ in.).

Estimate:

EUR 150,000

- 250,000

USD 169,000

- 281,000

Sold for:

431,800 EUR (incl. premium)

Summer Auctions 2025

Selected Works, Thursday, 05.06.2025

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Original cardboard portfolio with text sheet/imprint and six lithographs, of which three coloured and two collaged, each on wove paper. Portfolio: 61 × 45 cm (24 × 17 ¾ in.). Each sheet signed. The text sheet with imprint additionally signed and numbered in red. Catalogue raisonné: Nisbet 110a-h / Söhn HDO 71301-6. 1st Kestnermappe. One of 50 numbered copies. The portfolio cover with collage.

Private Collection, Berlin / Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired 1990 at Grisebach, Berlin)

Auction no. 15: Ausgewählte Werke. Berlin, Villa Grisebach Auktionen, 1990, cat. no. 44, ill.

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Lot

Ohne Titel – Proun. 1921/22

Estimate:

EUR 50,000

- 70,000

Sold for:

EUR 59,500

This picture shows the following artwork: El Lissitzky. 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.

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

This picture shows the following artwork: El Lissitzky. Umschlagentwurf zum Buch „Das Huhn, das einen Kamm haben wollte“. 1919.

Lot

359

Umschlagentwurf zum Buch „Das Huhn, das einen Kamm haben wollte“. 1919

Estimate:

EUR 7,000

- 9,000

Sold for:

EUR 32,940

This picture shows the following artwork: El Lissitzky. Belarus. Design for a double page in the magazine „USSR under construction“. Circa 1937.

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

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