Proun Composition

El Lissitzky

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Artist: El Lissitzky
Date: c. 1922
Medium: Gouache and ink on paper
Dimensions: 19 3/4 x 15 3/4" (50.2 x 40.0 cm)
Location: The Museum of Modern Art
Credit: Gift of Curt Valentin

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Study for the book About Two Squares: A Suprematist Tale of Two Squares in Six Constructions (Pro dva kvadrata. Suprematicheskii skaz v 6-ti postroikakh)

1920

Watercolor and pencil on board

The Museum of Modern Art

Proun

1920

Collage of various cut-and-pasted papers, including abrasive paper (prepared with gouache and silver metallic paint), on cream wove paper, laid down on tan laminate board

Art Institute of Chicago

paper (fiber product)gouache watercolor+7

Proun GK

c. 1922–23

Gouache, ink, and pencil on paper

The Museum of Modern Art

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El Lissitzky, Proun Composition, c. 1922, Gouache and ink on paper, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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Proun Composition

Exhibition history

More works by El Lissitzky

Study for the book About Two Squares: A Suprematist Tale of Two Squares in Six Constructions (Pro dva kvadrata. Suprematicheskii skaz v 6-ti postroikakh)

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Orpheus before Pluto and Proserpina (Orpheus vor Pluto und Proserpina) from the illustrated book Eurydikes Wiederkehr, Drei Gesänge (The Return of Eurydice, Three Cantos)

The Departure of Orpheus from his Mother (Abschied Orpheus' von der Mutter) from the illustrated book Eurydikes Wiederkehr, Drei Gesänge (The Return of Eurydice, Three Cantos)

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About Two Squares: A Suprematist Tale of Two Squares in Six Constructions

Orpheus at the Shore II (Orpheus am Meer II) from the illustrated book Eurydikes Wiederkehr, Drei Gesänge (The Return of Eurydice, Three Cantos)

Untitled anti-German propaganda poster from the First World War, ("The Battle of Sokal")

Untitled (Futurist Landscape)