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
	<i>El Lissitsky: Experiments in Photography</i>. Houk Friedman (April 17-June 6, 1991).

	title:		The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde
	opening date:   1992-03-01T05:00:00
	<i>The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde</i>. 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
	<i>Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography</i>. 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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wall description:
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. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. 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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