Kazimir Malevich

1878–1935 · Expressionism & Early Modernism

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich was a Russian avant-garde artist and art theorist, whose work and writings pioneered the development of abstract painting in the 20th century. He is best known as the founder of Suprematism, a radically non-objective form of painting he introduced in 1915.

40 paintings

• Portrait of Mikhail Matyushin (1913)
• Woman with a rake
• Two Sisters II (1928)
• Partial Eclipse (1914)
• Clock (1913)
• Suprematism (1917)
• Bureau and Room (1913)
• Suprematist Composition (1916)
• Red Cavalry Riding (1932)
• Moonlit Night (1900)
• The Knife Grinder (1912)
• Suprematism (Supremus no. 56) (1916)
• Morning in the Village after Snowstorm (1912)
• Untitled (1916)
• Woman with Pails: Dynamic Arrangement (1912)
• Samovar (1913)
• Reservist of the First Division (1914)
• Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying (1915)
• Untitled (Suprematist Composition) (1919)
• Untitled (Suprematist Composition) (1919)
• Painterly Realism of a Football Player - Color Masses in the 4th Dimension (1915)
• The Woodcutter (1912)
• Supremus No. 50 (1915)
• Construction in Dissolution (three arches on a diagonal element in white) (1917)
• Hieratic Suprematist Cross (large cross in black over red on white) (1920)
• Suprematist Painting (with Black Trapezium and Red Square) (1915)
• White Planes in Dissolution (1917)
• Yellow Plane in Dissolution (1917)
• Suprematist Composition 1 (1916)
• Bather (1911)
• Automobil and Lady – Color Masses in the 4th Dimension (1915)
• House in a Yard (1920)
• Rest (Society in Top Hats) (1908)
• Stroyuschiysya dom (1910)
• Suprematist Composition: White on White (1918)
• Sensation of danger (1930)
• The white horse (1930)
• Head of a Peasant (1911)
• Suprematism (1915)
• Black Square (1930) (1930)