Composition

El Lissitzky · 1922

This is Composition — a painting by the Russian artist El Lissitzky, nineteen twenty-two. Tempera: pigment bound in egg, which dries within minutes and cannot be blended once down.

Medium Oil and tempera on wood · Dimensions 27 3/8 x 24 1/4" (69.7 x 61.7 cm) · Credit The Riklis Collection of McCrory Corporation

Hanging beside it in Gallery 507: Painterly Architectonic, Some

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Painterly Architectonic, Composition, Windows, Concrete 61, Jar, Bottle and Glass, Cut-out Frame no. 2