El Lissitzky Works Online
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Original works by El Lissitzky available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Mini-site for the 1998-99 exhibition Monuments of the Future: Designs by El Lissitzky
El Lissitzky at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Many works online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
El Lissitzky at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Chad Gadya (The Tale of the Goat), 1919
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Untitled, ca.1919-20
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Untitled, ca.1919-20
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Untitled
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
Title sheet to Part of the Show Machinery, 1923
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
Proun, 1920
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
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El Lissitzky in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Moscow Museum of Modern Art (in Russian) 
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris
Had Gadya: One only kid which my father bought for two zuzim, 1919
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
Proun 19D, 1922
Composition, 1922
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 works by El Lissitzky online
State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
Stiftung Moritzburg, Moritzburg, Germany (in German)
Selbstporträt mit Zirkel (Self-Portrait with Compass), 1924
Stiftung Moritzburg, Moritzburg, Germany (in German)
Proun 30, 1920
Tate Gallery, London, UK
El Lissitzky at the The British Museum, London, UK
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands
Proun P23, no.6, 1919
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales
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Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
El Lissitzky in the Artchive
El Lissitzky at The Athenaeum
3 works online by Lissitzky
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
PBase Photo Sharing
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USC Annenberg School for Communication
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Another Form of Intervention/Studio Cleo
Articles and Reference Sites:
Answers.com reference works 
See the "Photography Encyclopedia" entry, which is actually from The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2005)
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on El Lissitzky
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy
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The Isms of Art: 1924-1914
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El Lissitzky: Beyond the Abstract Cabinet
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