Live Auction 2767the deLIGHTed eye: Modernist Masterworks from a Private Collection
EL [LAZAR MARKOVICH] LISSITZKY (1890-1941)
Lot 39

EL [LAZAR MARKOVICH] LISSITZKY (1890-1941)

Proun in Material (Proun 83), 1924

Closed4 April 2013

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EL [LAZAR MARKOVICH] LISSITZKY (1890-1941)
Proun in Material (Proun 83), 1924
gelatin silver print
annotation 'N51' in ink (on the verso)
image/sheet: 5½ x 4in. (14 x 10.2cm.)

Gift from the artist to his assistant;
with a private dealer, Germany;
to a private collection, Chicago;
with Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago

Specialist note

Proun (Project for the Affirmation of the New) was a series begun by Lissitzky in 1919 after he became familiar with Kasimir Malevich's Suprematist principles. Lissitzky created 98 Prounen over the next seven years. This, number 83 in the series, was a construction of wood and celluloid and is now lost.