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IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART - EVENING SALE
(16 May 2017).
Kazimir Malevich
1879 - 1935
SUPREMATIST COMPOSITION WITH PLANE IN PROJECTION
Oil on canvas
21 by 20 7/8 in.
53.3 by 53 cm
Painted in 1915.
21 by 20 7/8 in.
53.3 by 53 cm
Painted in 1915.
LOT SOLD. 21,162,500 USD
PROVENANCE
Nikolai Khardzhiev, Moscow & Amsterdam (probably acquired from the artist in the 1930s)Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich (acquired from the above in 1994)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
EXHIBITED
(probably) Petrograd, Galerie Dobycina, 0.10: The Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings, 1915-16Moscow, Salles de B. Dmitrovka 11, K. S. Malevich. His Path from Impressionism to Suprematism, 1920
Berlin, Deutsche Guggenheim; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum & Houston, The Menil Collection, Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism, 2003-04, illustrated in color in the catalogue
London, Tate Modern, Malevich, 2014, no. 90, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, In Search of 0.10: The Last Futurist Exhibition of Painting, 2015-16, illustrated in color in the catalogue.
LITERATURE
Kazimir Malevich 1878-1935 (exhibition catalogue), Russian Museum, St. Petersburg; Tretyakov State Gallery, Moscow & Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1988-89, no. 21-22, illustrated in a photograph n.p.John Milner, ed., Kazimir Malevich and the Art of Geometry, New Haven & London, 1996, illustrated in a photograph p. 135
Andréi Nakov, Kazimir Malewicz. Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 2002, no. S-159, illustrated p. 215
Evgenia Petrova & John E. Bowlt, eds., A Legacy Regained: Nikolai Khardzhiev and the Russian Avant-Garde, St. Petersburg, 2002, illustrated p. 270
Malevich and Film (exhibition catalogue), Fundação Central Cultural de Belém, Lisbon & Fundación La Caixa, Madrid, 2002-03, illustrated in a photograph p. 15
Andréi Nakov, Malevich. Painting the Absolute, Farnham, 2010, vol. II, illustrated in color p. 165
CATALOGUE NOTE
Kazimir Malevich,Suprematist Composition with Plane in Projection
By Aleksandra Shatskikh
At the famous 0.10: Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings in Petrograd in December 1915, Kazimir Malevich exhibited 39 paintings, marking the emergence of innovative Russian painting into the world of international avant-garde art. Malevich created a new terminological definition for his canvases, the suprematism of painting, which was soon shortened to one word: “Suprematism.” In Malevich’s opinion, these suprematist works showed the absolute power and domination, or the supremacy, of color in painting. Their subjects were devoid of any resemblance to objects or phenomena that were present in the real world. Indeed, another definition favored by Malevich was “безпредметное искусство,” or “subject-less” art, which is normally translated into English as “abstract art.”
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Aleksandra Shatskikh, PhD is an art historian. Her book Black Square: Malevich and the Origin of Suprematism was published in 2012
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