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El Lissitzky

Potschinok/Smolensk 1890 – 1941 Moscow

”Proun (1919-1923) 1. Kestnermappe”. 1923

Original cardboard portfolio with text sheet/imprint and six lithographs, of which three coloured and two collaged, each on wove paper. Portfolio: 61 × 45 cm (24 × 17 ¾ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: El Lissitzky. ”Proun (1919-1923) 1. Kestnermappe”. 1923.

Estimate:

EUR 150,000

 

- 250,000

USD 169,000

 

- 281,000

Sold for:

431,800 EUR (incl. premium)

Summer Auctions 2025

Selected Works, Thursday, 05.06.2025

Information

Original cardboard portfolio with text sheet/imprint and six lithographs, of which three coloured and two collaged, each on wove paper. Portfolio: 61 × 45 cm (24 × 17 ¾ in.). Each sheet signed. The text sheet with imprint additionally signed and numbered in red. Catalogue raisonné: Nisbet 110a-h / Söhn HDO 71301-6. 1st Kestnermappe. One of 50 numbered copies. The portfolio cover with collage.

Private Collection, Berlin / Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired 1990 at Grisebach, Berlin)

Auction no. 15: Ausgewählte Werke. Berlin, Villa Grisebach Auktionen, 1990, cat. no. 44, ill.