LOT DETAILS

Materials:

gelatin silver print

Size Notes:

image: 9.625 x 11in. (24.4 x 27.9cm.) sheet: 9.75 x 11.375in. (24.8 x 29cm.)

Markings:

gelatin silver print, 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), Other prints of this image are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York and SEPHEROT Foundation, Liechtenstein.

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.