1985.201: Study for a lithograph in the Kestner Portfolio
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1985.201
- People
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El Lissitzky, Russian (Pochinok, Russia 1890 - 1941 Moscow, Russia)
- Title
- Study for a lithograph in the Kestner Portfolio
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1923
- Culture
- Russian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/222220
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Gouache, wash, graphite, silver paint, and collage element on tan card
- Technique
- Collage
- Dimensions
- 55.2 x 41.9 cm (21 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: in graphite at l.c.: EL LiSSiTZKY
- stamp: on verso at c.c., blue ink, German: Landes Museum Hannover / Rudolf v. Bennigsenstr. 1. Fernruf 82178 / Abteilung für Kunst
- blind stamp: l.r.: [rectangular stamp; letters are illegible]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Hanover Museum. Alexander Dorner?, by 1938?. The Fredric Wertham Collection, gift of his wife Hesketh; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1985.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Fredric Wertham Collection, Gift of his wife Hesketh
- Copyright
- © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Accession Year
- 1985
- Object Number
- 1985.201
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Peter Nisbet and El Lissitzky, El Lissitzky 1890-1941: Catalogue for an Exhibition of Selected Works from North American Collections, the Sprengel Museum Hanover and the Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1987), Pl. 44, page 107, ill., color
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