Artworks · El Lissitzky

Plate from Chad gadya (The Tale of a Goat)

1919 · One from an illustrated book with thirteen lithographs (including cover)

composition (irreg.): 9 9/16 × 8" (24.3 × 20.3 cm); sheet: 10 15/16 × 10 1/8" (27.8 × 25.7 cm)

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Interior cover from Chad gadya (The Tale of a Goat)

1919 · One from an illustrated book with thirteen lithographs (including cover)

composition and cover (unfolded): 11 5/16 × 27 7/8" (28.8 × 70.8 cm)

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Plate from Chad gadya (The Tale of a Goat)

1919 · One from an illustrated book with thirteen lithographs (including cover)

composition (irreg.): 9 9/16 × 8 3/16" (24.3 × 20.8 cm); sheet: 10 13/16 × 10 1/16" (27.5 × 25.6 cm)

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Plate from Chad gadya (The Tale of a Goat)

1919 · One from an illustrated book with thirteen lithographs (including cover)

composition (irreg.): 9 3/16 × 7 13/16" (23.4 × 19.8 cm); sheet: 10 13/16 × 10 3/16" (27.4 × 25.8 cm)

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Plate from Chad gadya (The Tale of a Goat)

1919 · One from an illustrated book with thirteen lithographs (including cover)

composition (irreg.): 9 1/2 × 7 15/16" (24.2 × 20.1 cm); sheet: 10 13/16 × 10 3/16" (27.4 × 25.8 cm)

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Plate from Chad gadya (The Tale of a Goat)

1919 · One from an illustrated book with thirteen lithographs (including cover)

composition (irreg.): 9 3/4 × 7 9/16" (24.8 × 19.2 cm); sheet: 10 13/16 × 10 3/16" (27.5 × 25.8 cm)

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Plate from Chad gadya (The Tale of a Goat)

1919 · One from an illustrated book with thirteen lithographs (including cover)

composition (irreg.): 9 5/8 × 8 3/8" (24.5 × 21.2 cm); sheet: 10 13/16 × 10 3/16" (27.4 × 25.8 cm)

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Plate from Chad gadya (The Tale of a Goat)

1919 · One from an illustrated book with thirteen lithographs (including cover)

composition (irreg.): 9 5/8 × 8 3/16" (24.4 × 20.8 cm); sheet: 10 13/16 × 10 1/8" (27.4 × 25.7 cm)

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Untitled from Proun

1919 · Lithograph from a portfolio of six lithographs, two with collage additions

composition and sheet: 23 1/2 x 17 3/16" (59.7 x 43.6 cm)

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Untitled from Proun

1919 · Lithograph with collage additions from a portfolio of six lithographs, two with collage additions

composition (irreg.): 14 x 13 9/16" (35.5 x 34.5 cm); sheet: 23 3/4 x 17 7/16" (60.4 x 44.3 cm)

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Untitled from Proun

1919 · Lithograph with collage additions from a portfolio of six lithographs, two with collage additions

composition (irreg.): 18 13/16 x 9 5/8" (47.8 x 24.5 cm); sheet: 23 3/4 x 17 3/8" (60.3 x 44.1 cm)

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Untitled from Proun

1919 · Lithograph from a portfolio of six lithographs, two with collage additions

composition: 12 3/16 x 20 7/8" (31 x 53 cm); sheet: 17 3/8 x 23 3/4" (44.1 x 60.3 cm)

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Untitled from Proun

1919 · Lithograph from a portfolio of six lithographs, two with collage additions

composition (irreg.): 23 11/16 x 16 5/8" (60.2 x 42.3 cm); sheet: 23 11/16 x 17 3/16" (60.2 x 43.7 cm)

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Untitled from Proun

1919 · Lithograph from a portfolio of six lithographs, two with collage additions

composition (irreg.): 21 3/8 x 17 5/16" (54.3 x 43.9 cm); sheet: 23 5/8 x 17 5/16" (60 x 43.9 cm)

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Proun

1919 · Portfolio of six lithographs, two with collage additions

composition: dimensions vary; sheet (each approx.): 23 5/8 x 17 3/8" (60 x 44.1 cm)

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Di hun vos hot gevolt hoben a kam (The Hen that Wanted a Comb)

1919 · Book with ten lithographed illustrations

page (each): 4 5/16 × 5 3/4" (11 × 14.6 cm); overall (closed): 4 5/16 × 5 13/16 × 1/16" (11 × 14.7 × 0.1 cm)

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Der milner, di milnerin, un di milshtayner (The Miller, His Wife, and Their Millstones)

1919 · Book with 11 letterpress illustrations

overall: 6 1/8 x 4 5/8 x 1/16" (15.5 x 11.7 x 0.2 cm); each page: 6 1/8 x 4 9/16" (15.5 x 11.6 cm)

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Yingl tsingl khvat (The Mischievous Boy)

1919 · Book with one lithographed and 10 letterpress illustrations

overall: 9 13/16 x 7 13/16 x 3/16" (24.9 x 19.8 x 0.5 cm); each page: 9 3/4 x 7 9/16" (24.8 x 19.2 cm)

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Air de dance pour piano / pesnia pliaska palestinskikh evreev / shira chadashah (Dance Music)

1919 · Cover with letterpress illustration on front

sheet: 14 3/16 x 10 7/16" (36 x 26.5 cm)

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Chad gadya (The Tale of a Goat)

1919 · Illustrated book with thirteen lithographs (including cover)

composition and sheet (see child records): dimensions vary

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Cover from Komitet po bor'be s bezrabotitsei (Committee to Combat Unemployment)

1919 · Folded sheet with two lithographed illustrations and manuscript text

sheet (folded): 8 3/4 x 7 3/16" (22.2 x 18.2 cm); sheet (unfolded): 8 3/4 x 14 5/16" (22.2 x 36.3 cm)

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Four Teyashim (Four Billygoats) by Ben Zion Raskin

1919 · Letterpress

8 1/4 × 9 15/16 × 3/8" (20.9 × 25.3 × 1 cm)

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Title page from Katalog vystavki kartin i skulptury khudozhnikov evreev (Catalogue of the Exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures by Jewish Artists)

1917 · One from an illustrated book with two letterpress illustrations (including cover)

composition (irreg.): 4 3/16 × 4 1/8" (10.7 × 10.5 cm); overall (closed): 6 1/2 × 4 7/8 × 1/16" (16.5 × 12.4 × 0.1 cm)

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Sikhes kholin. Prager legende (Small Talk: The Legend of Prague), second edition

1917 · Book with 18 letterpress illustrations (including cover)

page (each): 8 7/8 x 11 1/8" (22.5 x 28.2 cm)

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Sikhes kholin. Prager legende (Small Talk: The Legend of Prague)

1917 · Book with 17 letterpress illustrations (one with watercolor additions)

page (each): 9 1/8 x 11" (23.1 x 28 cm)

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U rek vavilonskikh. Natsional'no-evreiskaia lirika v mirovoi poezii (By the Rivers of Babylon: Jewish Lyrics in World Poetry)

1917 · Book with letterpress cover

page: 8 15/16 x 7 3/16" (22.7 x 18.2 cm)

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The Sun in its Decline

1916 · Book with relief print in black and yellow-brown on blue-gray wove paper cover

22.3 × 17.8 × 0.7 cm (8 13/16 × 7 1/16 × 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Solntse na izlete. Vtoraia kniga stikhov, 1913-1916

1916

Page (irreg.): 9 3/16 x 7 9/16" (23.4 x 19.2 cm)

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Solntse na izlete. Vtoraia kniga stikhov, 1913-1916 (The Spent Sun: Second Book of Poems, 1913-1916)

1916 · Cover with letterpress illustration on front

page (irreg.): 9 1/16 x 7 1/4" (23 x 18.4 cm)

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