'2. The Announcer', El Lissitzky

Artwork details

Artist

El Lissitzky (1890‑1941)

Title

2. The Announcer

Ansager

From Victory Over the Sun

Date 1923

MediumLithograph on paper

Dimensionsimage: 510 x 428 mm support: 535 x 455 mm support (mount): 840 x 590 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Purchased 1976

Reference

P07139

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)