Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction
Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction
Property from the Hans and Marion König Collection
Self-Portrait (The Constructor)
Auction Closed
March 4, 08:29 PM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
El Lissitzky
1890 - 1941
Self-Portrait (The Constructor)
partially titled Konstruktor (in the margin)
zincography on silk tissue
37.4 by 42 cm. 14¾ by 16½ in.
Executed in 1924.
Estate of the artist
Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne
Acquired from the above in March 2019 by the present owners
Traugott Schalcher, "El Lissitzky, Moskau," Gebrauchsgraphik 5, no. 12, December 1928, p. 49, another example illustrated
Paul Westheim, "Zeitlupe," Das Kunstblatt 12, March 1928, p. 89, another example illustrated
Hans Richter and Werner Gräff, Filmgegner von heute—Filmfreunde von morgen, Berlin, 1929, p. 33, another example illustrated
Franz Roh and Jan Tschichold, Foto-Auge: 76 Fotos der Zeit, Stuttgart, 1929, another example illustrated on the cover
Gyorgy Kepes, Language of Vision, Chicago, 1944, p. 226, another example illustrated
Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers, El Lissitzky: Life, Letters, Texts, London, 1968, p. 404, pl. 118, another example illustrated
Dawn Ades, Photomontage, London, 1976, p. 22, no. 102, another example illustrated
Jean-Luc Daval, Photography, History of an Art, New York, 1982, p. 155, illustrated
Christina Lodder, Russian Constructivism, New Haven, 1983, fig. 6.12, p. 192, illustrated
El Lissitzky, 1890 - 1941, Hanover, 1987, p. 12, another example illustrated
El Lissitzky 1890 - 1941, Architect, Painter, Photographer, Typographer, Eindhoven, 1990, no. 117, another example illustrated
Exh. Cat, New York, Houk Friedman Gallery, El Lissitzky: Experiments in Photography, 1991, pl. 9, another example illustrated
Margarita Tupitsyn, El Lissitzky: Beyond the Abstract Cabinet: Photography, Design, Collaboration, New Haven, 1999, p. 82, pl. 15, no. 127, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute, Monuments of the Future: Designs by El Lissitzky, 1999, cover and no. 57, another example illustrated
Exh. Cat, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, OBJECT:PHOTO. Modern Photographs: The Thomas Walther Collection 1909–1949, 2014-15, fig. 4 and no. 168, pp. 22 and 261, another example illustrated
Klaus Pollmeier, "El Lissitzky's Multilayer Photographs: A Technical Analysis," in Mitra Abbaspour, Lee Ann Daffner and Maria Morris Hambourg, eds., Object: Photo. Modern Photographs: The Thomas Walther Collection 1909–1949. An Online Project of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2014, p. 7, another example illustrated
Kai-Uwe Hemken, "Der bioskopische Raum: El Lissitzky’s ‘Raum fuer konstruktive Kunst,’ (1926)," in Aura-Politiken: El Lissitzkys ‘Kabinett der Abstrakten’ zwischen Musealisierung und Teilhabe, Braunschweig, 2017, p. 69, another example illustrated
Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, Die Kunstismen in Rußland 1907-1930, May - June 1977, no. 56a, pp. 84 and 208, illustrated
Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Film und Foto der Zwanziger Jahre, 1979, pp. 15 and 36, illustrated
Essen, Museum Folkwang; Werkbund-Archiv, Berlin; Kunsthaus Zürich and Kunstverein Hamburg, Film und Foto der Zwanziger Jahre, 1979, no. 152, p. 134, illustrated
Washington, D. C., Hirshhorn Museum and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Avant-Garde in Russia: 1910–1930; New Perspectives, 1980-81, no. 161, p. 191
Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, El Lissitzky: Rétrospective, 1991
Catalogue note
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