El Lissitzky Proun 19D 1920 or 1921
- Medium
- Gesso, oil, varnish, crayon, colored papers, sandpaper, graph paper, cardboard, metallic paint, and metal foil on plywood
- Dimensions
- 38 3/8 x 38 1/4" (97.5 x 97.2 cm)
- Credit
- Katherine S. Dreier Bequest
- Object number
- 172.1953
- Copyright
- © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- El Lissitzky has 137 works online.
- There are 2,456 paintings online.
Installation views
We have identified these works in the following photos from our exhibition history.
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Summer Exhibition: New Acquisitions; Recent American Prints, 1947–1953; Katherine S. Dreier Bequest; Kuniyoshi and Spencer; Expressionism in Germany; Varieties of Realism
Jun 23–Oct 4, 1953
1 other work identified
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XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
Oct 19, 1954–Feb 6, 1955
2 other works identified
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Art in a Changing World: 1884–1964: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
May 27, 1964
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Ways of Looking
Jul 28–Nov 1, 1971
6 other works identified
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Revolution: Russian Avant-Garde, 1912–1930
Oct 12, 1978–Jan 2, 1979
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Art of the Twenties
Nov 14, 1979–Jan 22, 1980
4 other works identified
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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Painting and Sculpture
May 17, 1984–Aug 4, 1992
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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Painting and Sculpture
May 17, 1984–Aug 4, 1992
1 other work identified
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Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art, 1910–1980
Oct 2, 1985–Jan 7, 1986
8 other works identified
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Deconstructivist Architecture
Jun 23–Aug 30, 1988
1 other work identified
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Selections from the Permanent Collection of Painting and Sculpture
Jul 1, 1993
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Painting &
Sculpture II Nov 20, 2004–Aug 5, 2015
9 other works identified
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Painting &
Sculpture II Nov 20, 2004–Aug 5, 2015
3 other works identified
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Painting &
Sculpture II Nov 20, 2004–Aug 5, 2015
7 other works identified
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On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century
Nov 21, 2010–Feb 7, 2011
1 other work identified
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On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century
Nov 21, 2010–Feb 7, 2011
2 other works identified
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Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925
Dec 23, 2012–Apr 15, 2013
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Painting and Sculpture Changes 2013
Jan 1–Dec 31, 2013
4 other works identified
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A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde
Dec 3, 2016–Mar 12, 2017
4 other works identified
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A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde
Dec 3, 2016–Mar 12, 2017
4 other works identified
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A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde
Dec 3, 2016–Mar 12, 2017
1 other work identified
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A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde
Dec 3, 2016–Mar 12, 2017
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512: Abstraction and Utopia
Fall 2019–Fall 2020
1 other work identified
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512: Abstraction and Utopia
Fall 2019–Fall 2020
3 other works identified
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512: Abstraction and Utopia
Fall 2019–Fall 2020
1 other work identified
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512: Abstraction and Utopia
Fall 2019–Fall 2020
1 other work identified
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507: Katarzyna Kobro, Shaping Space
Aug 7, 2021–Mar 24, 2022
4 other works identified
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507: Katarzyna Kobro, Shaping Space
Aug 7, 2021–Mar 24, 2022
2 other works identified
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This work is included in the Provenance Research Project, which investigates the ownership history of works in MoMA's collection.
Acquired by Katherine S. Dreier (1877-1952), New York and West Redding, CT, 1922 [1]; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1953 (Katherine S. Dreier Bequest).
[1] Dreier purchased the work from the Erste Russische Kunstausstellung, Galerie van Diemen, Berlin, October 15-end of December, 1922 (no. 122: Proun 19D).
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