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    Foto: Walter Klein, Düsseldorf

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    Foto: Walter Klein, Düsseldorf

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    Proun G 7, 1923

    El Lissitzky

    On view at K20

    Information

    Artist

    El Lissitzky

    1890
    Potschinok, Russland

    1941
    Moskau, Russland

    Work data

    Material/Technique

    Distemper, tempera, varnish and pencil on canvas

    Dimensions

    Image: 77.2 × 62.2 × 2.3 cm
    Frame: 100.2 × 88.1 × 7.6 cm
    Image: 79.4 × 64.6 × 2.5 cm

    Signature

    Unbezeichnet

    Accession Number

    0188

    Acquisition year

    1972

    Provenance

    The work “Proun G 7” by El Lissitzky entered the collection of Hjalmar Gabrielson immediately after its creation in 1923. The collection was established in Berlin in 1922 and 1923 under the consultation of Arthur Segal. As Gabrielson’s daughter presumably consigned Lissitzky’s work to the auction of the Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett in May 1960, it can be assumed that the work did not leave the Gabrielson collection and estate until then. Around a year later, in June 1961, it was offered for sale at Klipstein & Kornfeld. There it was purchased by Galerie Chalette, which possessed it until it was sold to the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. The latter purchased the work “Proun G 7” in 1972 for its holdings.

    Credit line

    Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

    Exhibitions
    • El Lissitzky, 14.12.1990-2.3.1991, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
    • Cosmologies, 16.6.-16.10.1999, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal
    • Unser 20. Jahrhundert - Meisterwerke von Picasso bis Beuys, 14.7.-28.10.2000, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
    • Silent Revolution - Eine neue Sammlungspräsentation, 26.2.-12.6.2010, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf
    • Vues d'en haut ("Blick von oben"), 16.5.-6.10.2013, Centre Pompidou - Metz
    • Kandinsky, Malewitsch, Mondrian - Der weiße Abgrund Unendlichkeit / Kandinsky, Malevich, Mondrian - The Infinite White Abyss, 4.4.-5.7.2014, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, K20 Grabbeplatz
    Tags
    abstract Modern Art geometric
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