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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.58
People
El Lissitzky, Russian (Pochinok, Russia 1890 - 1941 Moscow, Russia)
Co-designed by Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers, Russian (Kiel, Germany 1891 - 1978 Novosibirsk, USSR (now Novosibirsk, Russia))
Title
Food Industry. Pages from the Album (El Lissitzky and Sophie Küppers Lissitzky, designers)
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Food Industry. Pages from the Album
Classification
Prints
Work Type
portfolio
Date
1936
Culture
Russian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/195408

Physical Descriptions

Medium
portfolio of fifty-eight mounted photogravure plates, printed text pages, cloth cover
Technique
Photogravure
Dimensions
cover: 50 x 41 x 3.5 cm (19 11/16 x 16 1/8 x 1 3/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase in memory of Eda K. Loeb
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.58
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
.A: title page; .B: table of contents; .C: text booklet included in portfolio
.D: gray silk cover

Publication History

  • Nancy Perloff, ed., Situating El Lissitzky: Vitebsk, Berlin, Moscow, Getty Trust Publications (Los Angeles, 2003), p. 216, figs. 2-3, b/w

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