id: 165145 accession number: 2007.147 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.147 updated: 2023-08-24 00:16:59.745000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1928 creation date earliest: 1923 creation date latest: 1933 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: © 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: Russia, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print from a photogram negative department: Photography collection: PH - Russian 20th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * El Lissitzky (Russian, 1890–1941) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: written in pencil on verso: "166 (in a circle)/ artist's printing notes" translation: remark: inscription: Notations on verso of print, initaled by Sophie Lissitsky-Küppers translation: remark: --- 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE The artist's family, Moscow date: footnotes: citations: (Houk Friedman, New York, NY) date: early 1990s footnotes: citations: Private Collection, New York, NY date: footnotes: citations: Bernd Künne, Hanover, Germany date: footnotes: citations: (Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY, Oct. 14, 2004, no. 131) date: October 14, 2004 footnotes: citations: David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY date: 2004-2007 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2007- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- 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. url: 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. url: 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. url: 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. url: 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/ --- IMAGES