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There was such a shortage that one could find almost turned it over and over and then offered me for it—ten
anything there and the commission shops would buy thousand roubles. Mrs Lissitzky was called and arrived
almost anything—particularly clothes. I had brought with her portfolio, and under the astonished eyes of the
with me from the U.S. among my few clothes a still un- two young cultural officials we exchanged all she had left
worn combination shirt and shorts in red rayon, a of her husband's early work for my roubles. The young
garment then popular. It had cost me six dollars. I took officials gaped. 'And what do you think?' I asked them.
it to the commission shop, they examined it carefully, `Crazy American', they muttered.

Left El Lissitsky 2 pages of Revolutionary handbook (The four rules
of arithmetic) 1928 Watercolour 24 3/8 x 9 3/8 in.

Below El Lissitsky
Five Abstract drawings Watercolour