LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

20.98 in. (53.30 cm.) (height) by 20.98 in. (53.30 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Moscow, Lemercier Gallery, Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art, 1915, no. 90 or 91 (possibly) Petrograd, Galerie Dobycina, 0.10: The Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings, 1915-16 Warsaw, Hotel Polonia, Malevich, 1927 Berlin, Lehrter Bahnhof, Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung, 1927 Braunschweig, Kunstverein, Haus Salve Hospes, Kasimir Malewitsch, 1958, no. 20 (as dating from 1914) Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Casimir Malevich, 1958, no. 20, illustrated in the catalogue (as dating from 1914) Bern, Kunsthalle, Malevich, Pougny, Lissitzky & Mansurov, 1959, no. 20, illustrated in the catalogue (as dating from 1914) Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Kasimir Malevich, 1959, no. 20 London, Whitechapel Gallery, Kasimir Malevich, 1959, no. 20, illustrated in the catalogue Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum, Kasimir Malevich, 1960, no. 20 Ulm, Ulmer Museum, Malevich, 1961 Linz, Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz & Vienna, Galerie Würthle, Malevich, 1961-62, no. 12 Leverkusen, Städtisches Museum, Kasimir Malewitsch, 1962, no. 12, illustrated in color in the catalogue (as dating from 1914) Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, Malevich, 1962, no. 12 Hanover, Kunstverein, Die zwanziger Jahre in Hannover, 1962, no. J1, illustrated in the catalogue (as dating from 1914) Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1914. An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture Created in 1914, 1964, no. 141, illustrated in the catalogue (as dating from 1914-15; with inverted illustration) Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Inner and Outer Space, 1965-66, no. 27 Berlin, Deutsche Guggenheim; New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum & Houston, The Menil Collection, Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism, 2003-04, illustrated in color in the catalogue New York, Gagosian Gallery, Malevich and the American Legacy, 2011, illustrated in color in the catalogue London, Tate Modern, Malevich, 2014, no. 96A, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Literature:

Iskra, no. 45, 15th November 1915, illustrated in a photograph of the 1915 exhibition Guy Habasque, 'Malevitch', in L'Œil, no. 71, November 1960, illustrated p. 45 Troels Anderson, Malevich, Amsterdam, 1970, no. 52, illustrated p. 94 (with inverted illustration) Larissa A. Zhadova, Malevich. Suprematism and Revolution in Russian Art 1910-1930, London, 1982, no. 49, illustrated in color Jean-Claude Marcadé, Kazimir Malevitch, Paris, 1990, no. 212, illustrated in color p. 142 Andréi Nakov, Kazimir Malewicz. Catalogue Raisonné, Paris, 2002, no. S-56, illustrated p. 192 Andréi Nakov, Malevich. Painting the Absolute, Farnham, 2010, vol. II, illustrated in color p. 89 Aleksandra Shatskikh, Black Square: Malevich and the Origin of Suprematism, New Haven, 2012, illustrated p. 91

Provenance:

The artist Thence by descent to the artist's heirs