Proun by El Lissitzky
Art Institute of Chicago

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El Lissitzky · 1920

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Sold by Rose Fried Gallery (founded in 1940 as The Pinacotheca Gallery), New York (label, verso: The PINACOTHECA 40 E68 8 NY.), to Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Houston, Tex., Contemporary Arts Museum, "The Sphere of Mondrian," February 27–March 24, 1957, hors cat.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings," June 11–September 7, 1999, checklist 30 (ill.).
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 170-171, cat. 121 (ill.).
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life," June 11-October 9, 2011.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test", October 27, 2017 - January 15, 2018, cat. 532, cat. by Matthew Witkovsky and Devin Fore, et. al.

Literature

Published references

  • The Art Institute of Chicago. Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood with commentaries by Debra N. Mancoff (Chicago, 2000), p. 258 (ill.).

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