LOT DETAILS

Materials:

photograph of a photomontage

Measurements:

3.03 in. (7.70 cm.) (height) by 3.46 in. (8.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

initialed in the negative, Buhl Collection and Guggenheim Museum exhibition labels on the reverse

Condition:

framed

Literature:

Margarita Tupitsyn, El Lissitzky: Beyond the Abstract Cabinet (Yale University Press, 1999), pp. 76, 78-82; Ute Eskildsen and Jan-Christopher Horak, Film und Foto, der Zwanziger Jahre (Stuttgart, 1979), pl. 152; Dawn Ades, Photomontage (London, 1976), pl. 102; John Szarkowski, Photography Until Now (The Museum of Modern Art, 1989), p. 176; Franz Roh and Jan Tschichold, FotoAuge (London: Thames and Hudson facsimile reprint of the 1929 original edition, 1977), cover; Variants:; Jennifer Blessing, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Guggenheim Foundation, 2004), pp. 129 and 229 (this print)

Provenance:

The photographer to Kate Steinitz; The Collection of Lydia Winston Malbin, New York; Sotheby's New York, The Collection of Lydia Winston Malbin, 16 May 1990, Sale 6021, Lot 87; Hendrik Berinson, Berlin; Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, 1998