'1. Part of the Show Machinery', El Lissitzky

Artwork details

Artist

El Lissitzky (1890‑1941)

Title

1. Part of the Show Machinery

Teil der Schaumachinerie

From Victory Over the Sun

Date 1923

MediumLithograph on paper

Dimensionsimage: 512 x 430 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Purchased 1976

Reference

P07138

View this artwork by appointment, at Tate Britain's Prints and Drawings Rooms

Catalogue entry

This catalogue entry discusses a group of works.

El Lissitzky1890-1941

P07137-47 Victory over the Sun1923

Each sheet is inscribed 'El Lissitzky' either b.l. or b.r.; the title page is also numbered '8' b.r.
Portfolio of lithographs comprising a cardboard case, a title page in black (P07137) and ten colour lithographs on paper approx. 20 1/8 x 16 7/8 (51 x 43)
Purchased from Mrs Donald Ogden Stewart (Grant-in-Aid) 1976
Prov:Mrs Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers, Moscow; Mrs Donald Ogden Stewart (Ella Winter), New York and London, 1944
Exh:Russian Graphic Art - XVIII to XX Centuries, Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, November-December 1978 (231-40)
Lit:Horst Richter, El Lissitzky: Sieg über die Sonne: zur Kunst des Konstruktivismus(Cologne 1958), the title page and all 10 colour lithographs repr.; exh… (read more)