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Preview image of work. lithograph on velin paper,  Proun 2B 37192

2018.18

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Proun 2B

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Artist

El Lissitzky (Lazar Markovich Lissitzky) (Pochinok, Pochinkovsky District, Smolensk Oblast, Russia, 11/23/1890 - 12/30/1941, Moscow, Russua)

Title

Proun 2B

Creation Date

1921

Century

early 20th century

Dimensions

8 1/16 x 10 7/16 in. (20.48 x 26.51 cm)

Object Type

print

Creation Place

Asia, Russia

Medium and Support

lithograph on velin paper

Credit Line

Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund

Copyright

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Accession Number

2018.18

Created in the wake of Russian Revolution of 1917, which overthrew the nation’s imperial government in favor of rule by the people, El Lissitzky’s abstract composition demonstrates the artist’s desire to apply groundbreaking utopian aspirations to art making. The word “Proun” is an acronym signifying, in Russian, “Project for the Affirmation of the New.” This work, part of a portfolio of “Proun” lithographs, affirms the artist’s dedication to a non-objective art evocative of new methods of understanding materiality, space, and the creative process itself.

Object Description

Per Alice Adam, Ltd. (March 2018):
Plate 22 from the Proun portfolio
The first Proun portfolio, Moscow 1919, was never published and exists in proofs only.
Mrs. Gmurzynska visited Ms. El Lissitzky in Siberia where they had been place by the government. That is where the image is from.