LOT DETAILS

Materials:

gelatin silver print

Size Notes:

image: 24.4 x 27.9; sheet: 24.8 x 29 cm.

Description:

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Markings:

initialled 'eL' with four pencil cropping arrows (image edge); titled, annotated and dated 'No 71 EL Lissitzky Selbstbildnis 1924 Fotomalerei Die Pfeile bezeichnen den Rand des Klisch 211mm breit' in pencil (verso)

Exhibited:

Stuttgart, Städtische Ausstellungshallen, Internationale Ausstellung des Deutschen Werkbunds Film und Foto (Fifo), 1929 (another print exhibited; illustrated, p. 36). San Bernardino, California State University, Avant-Garde 'Käte Steinitz Art and Collection: Art in Germany in the 1920's and 1930's', 1982. Cambridge, Harvard University Art Museums, El Lissitzky (1890 – 1941). Selected works from North American Collections, the Sprengel Museum Hannover and the Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle, 1987-1988 (another print exhibited; illustrated, p. 12). This exhibition later travelled to Hannover, Sprengel Museum Hannover and Halle, Saatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle. Hannover, Sprengel Museum Hannover, El Lissitzky, 1890 – 1941: Retrospektive, 1988, no. 168. Hannover, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Käte Steinitz, 1989. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Photography Until Now, 1989 – 1990, p. 322, no. 9 (illustrated, p. 176). This exhibition later travelled to Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art. Hannover, Sprengel Museum Hannover, El Lissitzky. Beyond the Abstract Cabinet: Photography, Design, Collaboration, 1999, p. 232, no. 34, pl. 14 (original collage exhibited; illustrated on the front cover and p. 81); p. 234, no. 131, fig. 7 (illustrated, p. 30). This exhibition later travelled to Barcelona, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona and Porto, Museu Serralves. New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from the Buhl Collection, 2004 – 2006 (another print exhibited; illustrated, pp. 129 and 229). This exhibition later travelled to Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; Essen, Folkwang Museum; St. Petersburg, Russian Museum and Moscow, Moscow Museum of Modern Art. New York, Museum of Modern Art, The Shaping of New Visions: Photography, Film, Photobook, 2012 (MoMA print exhibited). Los Angeles, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hans Richter: Encounters, 2013 – 2014. This exhibition later travelled to Metz, Centre Pompidou-Metz and Berlin, Gropius Bau.

Literature:

S. Traugott, 'El Lissitzky, Moskau', in Gebrauchsgraphik (Production Graphics), December 1928 (another print illustrated, p. 49). F. Roh and J. Tschichold, Foto-Auge: 76 Fotos der Zeit, Stuttgart 1929 (illustrated on the front cover). G. Kepes, Language of Vision, Chicago 1944 (illustrated, p. 226). S. Lissitzky-Küppers, El Lissitzky: Life, Letters, Texts, London 1968, p. 404, pl. 118 (another print illustrated, unpaged). D. Ades, Photomontage, London 1976, p. 22, no. 102 (another print illustrated). U. Eskildsen and J.-C. Horak, Film und Foto, der Zwanziger Jahre, Stuttgart 1979, pl. 152 (another print illustrated, p. 134). OBJECT:PHOTO. Modern Photographs: The Thomas Walther Collection 1909 – 1949, exh. cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2014, fig. 4, no. 168 (another print illustrated, pp. 22 and 261).

Provenance:

A gift from the artist to Käte T. Steinitz, Hannover in 1924. Thence by descent to the present owner.