Gravediggers

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Gravediggers

1923

El Lissitzky (Eleazar Lissitzky) (Russian, 1890–1941) Printed and published by Rob. Leunis & Chapman, Hanover, Germany

A peripatetic artist, El Lissitzky frequently traveled between Moscow, Berlin, and Paris through the 1920s. This lithograph is part of a portfolio of costume designs for an unrealized production of the Futurist opera Victory over the Sun (originally staged in Moscow in 1913) was sold in Paris in the vanguard bookshop and art gallery Au Sans Pareil. Lissitzky’s production was to be enacted by electronically driven mechanical figures, manlike machines that were also colorful geometric abstractions.

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Object Details

Titles:

Gravediggers
Plate 9 from the portfolio Victory over the Sun

Date:

1923

Artists:

El Lissitzky (Eleazar Lissitzky) (Russian, 1890–1941) Printed and published by Rob. Leunis & Chapman, Hanover, Germany

Medium:

Color lithograph

Dimensions:

Image: 14 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches (37.5 x 24.8 cm) Sheet: 21 x 18 inches (53.3 x 45.7 cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

Gift of Dr. George J. Roth, 1953

Accession Number:

1953-23-9

Geography:

Made in Russia, Asia Published in Hanover, Germany, Europe

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