LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

39.45 in. (100.20 cm.) (height) by 23.31 in. (59.20 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

(possibly) Warsaw, Polski Klub Artystyczny, Wystawa Kazimierza Malewicza, 1927 Berlin, Lehrter Bahnhof, Große Berliner Kunstausstellung, 1927 Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, First Showing of the Malevich Collection, 1958 (located in the museum until 2008) Braunschweig, Kunstverein, Haus Salve Hospes, Malevich, 1958, no. 30 Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Malevich, 1958, no. 30 Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Malevich, Pougny, Lissitzky & Mansurov, 1959, no. 30 Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna; London, Whitechapel Gallery & Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum, Malevich, 1959, no. 30 (no. 29 in London) Ulm, Ulmer Museum, Malevich, 1961 Linz, Neue Galerie der Stadt & Vienna, Galerie Würthle, Malevich, 1961-62, no. 21, illustrated on the cover Leverkusen, Städtisches Museum & Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Malevich, 1962, no. 21, illustrated on the cover Hannover, Kunstverein Hannover, Die zwanziger Jahre in Hannover, 1962, no. 19 Bern, Kunsthalle, Malevich, Duchamp, Kandinsky, 1964, no. 19 Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Konstruktive Malerei 1915-1930, 1966-67, no. 12 Leningrad, Russian Museum; Moscow, Tretyakov Gallery & Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Kazimir Malevich, 1988-89, no. 65, illustrated in the catalogue and featured in an in situ photograph New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Abstraction in the Twentieth Century: Total Risk, Freedom, Discipline, 1996, no. 30 Paris, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Malévitch. Un choix dans les collections du Stedelijk Museum d’Amsterdam, 2003, no. 24, illustrated in color in the catalogue Berlin, Deutsche Guggenheim; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum & Houston, The Menil Collection, Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism, 2003-2004, illustrated in color in the catalogue New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Malevich in Focus: 1912-1922, 2010 New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Geometry of Kandinsky and. Malevich, 2010 New York, Gagosian Gallery, Malevich and the American Legacy, 2011, illustrated in color in the catalogue and featured in an in situ photograph (as dating from 1920-27)

Literature:

Troels Anderson, Malevich, Amsterdam, 1970, no. 73, illustrated p. 100 (as dating from after 1920) Jean-Claude Marcadé, Malevitch, Paris, 1990, no. 219, illustrated in color p. 149 (as dating from the 1920s) Evgenia Petrova & Joel Joosten, Malevich: Khudozhnik i teoretik, Sovetskii. Khudozhnik, 1990, illustrated p. 129, featured in an in situ photograph p. 17 Rainer Crone & David Moos, Kazimir Malevich, The Climax of Disclosure, Chicago, 1991, featured in an in situ photograph p. 204 Elena Basner & Evgenija Petrova, Kazimir Malevig, Florence, 1993, . illustrated p. 38 and featured in an in situ photograph p. 47 Elena Basner & Evgenija Petrova, Malevich: Collecion del Museo Estatal Ruso, Madrid, 1993, featured in an in situ photograph p. 95 Dmitri Sarabianov & Alexandra Shatskikh, Kazimir Malevich: Zhivopis ’ Teoriya, Moscow, 1993, no. 174, illustrated Kazimir Malevic, una retrospettiva (exhibition catalogue), Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence, 1993, illustrated in color p. 38 Elena Basner & Evgenija Petrova, Kazimir Malevich in the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, 2000, featured in an in situ photograph p. 439 Georgio Cortenova & Evgenia Petrova, Kazimir Malevich e le sacre icone Russe, Milan, 2000, featured in an in situ photograph p. 114 Gilles Neret, Kazimir Malevich: 1878-1935 and Suprematism, Cologne, 2003, illustrated p. 62 Claudia Zevi & Evgenia Petrova, Kazimir Malevic: oltre la figurazione, oltre. Vastrazione, Milan, 2005, featured in an in situ photograph p. 191 Andréi Nakov, Kazimir Malewicz, Catalogue Raisonné, Paris, 2002, no. S-613, illustrated p. 315 (reversed illustration; as dating from 1920-22). Andréi Nakov, Painting the Absolute, Farnham, 2010, vol. II, illustrated in color p. 397

Provenance:

Estate of the artist. Thence by descent to the artist's heirs