© Toomey & Co. — view on Toomey & Co. website ↗Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (poster), c. 1926
Lithograph · Paper
Toomey & Co. · Jul 24, 2024$852 ≈ £660 ≈ €785Sign up free to see priceAfter the artist
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El Lissitzky (Russian, 1890–1941) · circa 1920
CHF 80,000 hammer
≈ $94,440≈ £71,998≈ €85,227
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- Medium
- Watercolor · Works on paper all watercolor results →As published: “Pencil, watercolour and opaque paint on thin yellowish transparent paper”
- Support
- Paper
- Category
- Watercolors
- Dimensions
- 36.6 x 84 cm
- Auction house
- Kornfeld
- Sale
- Auction 281: 125 Selected Works of Art</P><P>Live Auction (281)
- Date
- September 13, 2024
- Location
- Bern, Switzerland
- Lot
- 190
- Estimate
- CHF 75,000 – — (≈ $88,538) (≈ £67,498) (≈ €79,900)
- Source
- Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
Provenance (7)
- Private collection
- Gallery Gmurzynska, Cologne, acquired there by
- Private collection Switzerland
- Auction Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 6 June 2008, lot 87, acquired there by
- Private collection Switzerland
- Exhibition
- Cologne 1976, Galerie Gmurzynska, El Lissitzky, cat. no. 90
As published by Kornfeld.
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