id: 165145
accession number: 2007.147
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Mannequin, c. 1928. El Lissitzky (Russian, 1890–1941). Gelatin silver print from a photogram negative; image: 29.4 x 23.5 cm (11 9/16 x 9 1/4 in.); paper: 29.5 x 25.6 cm (11 5/8 x 10 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2007.147 © 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
title: Mannequin
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creation date: c. 1928
creation date earliest: 1923
creation date latest: 1933
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creditline: John L. Severance Fund
copyright: © 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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culture: Russia, 20th century
technique: gelatin silver print from a photogram negative
department: Photography
collection: PH - Russian 20th Century
type: Photograph
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CREATORS
* El Lissitzky (Russian, 1890–1941) - artist
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measurements: Image: 29.4 x 23.5 cm (11 9/16 x 9 1/4 in.); Paper: 29.5 x 25.6 cm (11 5/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
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inscription: written in pencil on verso: "166 (in a circle)/ artist's printing notes"
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inscription: Notations on verso of print, initaled by Sophie Lissitsky-Küppers
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: El Lissitsky: Experiments in Photography
opening date: 1991-04-17T04:00:00
El Lissitsky: Experiments in Photography. Houk Friedman (April 17-June 6, 1991).
title: The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde
opening date: 1992-03-01T05:00:00
The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany (March 1-May 10, 1992); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (June 5-August 23, 1992); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (September 25, 1992-January 3, 1993).
title: Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography
opening date: 2014-10-19T00:00:00
Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
The artist's family, Moscow
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(Houk Friedman, New York, NY)
date: early 1990s
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Private Collection, New York, NY
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Bernd Künne, Hanover, Germany
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(Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY, Oct. 14, 2004, no. 131)
date: October 14, 2004
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David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
date: 2004-2007
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 2007-
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A figure peers through a magnifying glass at a negative of an image of Paris taken by Lissitzky in 1928. The artist’s interest in the photogram and negative images may relate to his experience of being x-rayed for tuberculosis in 1924. Later that decade, Lissitzky experimented extensively with positive and negative versions of photograms. A photogram provides a negative image of the objects placed on the sensitized paper. Using the photogram as a negative creates a positive print. Printing a mix of positive and negative images on the same sheet of paper allowed Lissitzky to add a sense of three dimensionality to the silhouettes.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014.
page number: Reproduced: p. 88; mentioned p. 89; reproduced and mentioned: p. 220.
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Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Amsterdam (Netherlands), and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932 : Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, State Tretʹiakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. New York, N.Y.: Guggenheim Museum, 1992.
page number: Reproduced: p. 434, no. 472; mentioned: pp. 771.
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Lissitzky, El, and Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers. El Lissitzky; Life, Letters, Texts. Greenwich, Conn: New York Graphic Society, 1968.
page number: Reproduced: p. 263, no. 166; mentioned: pp. 401.
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Lissitzky, El, and Margarita Tupitsyn. El Lissitzky: Experiments in Photography : [Exhibition] April 17 to June 1, 1991. New York, N.Y.: Houk Friedman, 1991.
page number: Mentioned: p. 12; reproduced: p. 13.
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Hinson, Tom E., "Photo Surrealism", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 48 no. 3, March 2008
page number: 8Mentioned & reproduced: p. 8
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2008-03/page/8/
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