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LISSITZKY, El (1890-1941)

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Lot 184 | LISSITZKY, El (1890-1941)
LISSITZKY, El (1890-1941)
Suprematisch Worden van twee Kwadraten in 6 Konstrukties. La Haye : De Stijl, 1922.
Exemplaire signé par l'auteur de cette rare édition hollandaise. Seuls 6 exemplaires de cette édition semblent recensés en institutions publiques.
Ce célèbre ouvrage a été pensé par El Lissitzky comme un conte pour enfants, pour vulgariser et diffuser le nouveau langage suprématiste. Via une stylisation extrême, il raconte l'affrontement de deux carrés, l'un rouge et l'autre noir, jusqu'à ce que "sur le noir prenne place le rouge, la clarté, l'ordre". Pour un fervent partisan du communisme soviétique, comme l'était El Lissitzky, la symbolique chromatique de ce dénouement est sans équivoque. "Wear the black square as a mark of the world economy. Draw the red square in your workshops as a mark of the world revolution in the arts" (tract de l'UNOVIS, 1919).
Rowell, n°405.

In-8 oblong (210 x 260 mm), broché. Le colophon mentionne 50 exemplaires numérotés, signés par l'auteur.
Le présent exemplaire, signé par El Lissitzky, n'est pas numéroté. Couverture illustrée et 6 planches en noir et rouge par El Lissitzky (rousseurs à la couverture).

Very scarce first Dutch edition, this copy signed by the author. Only 6 copies seem to exist in institutions' holdings

Artist:El Lissitzky (1890 - 1941)
Place of origin:Russia, The Netherlands
Category:Book
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