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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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)

El Lissitzky

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Artist: El Lissitzky
Date: 1920
Medium: Watercolor and pencil on board
Dimensions: 10 1/8 x 8" (25.7 x 20.3 cm)

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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

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c. 1922–23

Gouache, ink, and pencil on paper

The Museum of Modern Art

Proun Composition

c. 1922

Gouache and ink on paper

The Museum of Modern Art

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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), 1920, Watercolor and pencil on board, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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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)

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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")

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