El Lissitzky (Lazar Markovich)

Russland. No. 1. Russland, die rekonstruktion der architekture in der Sowjetunion, diagrams and photogravure illustrations, publisher's two-color constructivist photomontage wrappers designed by Lissitzky, spine rubbed and detached at tail, wrappers a little teared or chipped, folio, Anton Schroll, Vienna, 1930.

*** Lissitsky’s master work on Russian Revolutionary architecture. El Lissitzky was one of the visionaries of the Russian Avant-Garde. Lithuanian-born Lazar Markovich Lissitzky became a revolutionary figure in the Jewish arts revival in Vitebsk. He and Chagall were close colleagues until Lissitzky converted to Malevich and Suprematism. He introduced a new visual vocabulary for creating modern abstract art with basic shapes and minimal colour.

Provenance. Sotheby's Russian Art sale 1990.