Figurinen: Sportsmänner (Figurines: Athletes)
El Lissitzky
(Russian, 1890–1941)
1923
Medium/TechniqueColor lithograph, plate six from the portfolio, Figurinen (Figurines), ten plates portraying the characters for his electro-mechanical marionette version of the Futurist opera, Sieg über die Sonne (Victory Over the Sun)
DimensionsSheet: 54.2 x 46.5 cm (21 5/16 x 18 5/16 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Richard E. Caves
Accession number2022.755
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ProvenanceMay 2, 1984, anonymous sale, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, lot 223A; sold to Richard E. Caves (b. 1931 – d. 2019), Cambridge, MA; 2022, bequest of Richard E. Caves to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 20, 2022)
![It is summer and by moonlight they take the air and get rid of their fleas by touch. (Es herano y a la luna, toman el fresco, y se espulgan / al tiento)
[Three Figures Seated at an Open Window]
Double-sided drawing in Album B (Madrid Sketchbook) No. 85;, on verso B 86 :"Buen Sacerdote..." (Good Priest....)](/internal/media/dispatcher/1029460/thumbnail)
