Trees dates from 1904 to 1905 and it’s an oil on canvas painting by Kazimir Malevich, relatively small at 31 x 19 cm. This painting provides an examples of the early work of this artist, using abstract lines similar in a way to some of Klimt’s paintings of trees. There are elements of this painting … Read more
Malevich was a highly skilled draughtsman who worked in a number of different genres in order to develop and perfect his talents within this medium. Here we find an unusual work which focuses on a tram driver. The Tram Driver captures a figurative portrait in which the artist appears to be working whilst out travelling. … Read more
Three female Figures might well be the smallest artwork left over from the career of Kazimir Malevich, with it measuring a tiny 7cm in width by 10cm in height, approximately. The artist completed it in circa 1905–1906. Malevich would have been in his mid to late twenties at the time of this painting and very … Read more
Kazimir Malevich’s 1912 painting Taking in the Rye offers a glimpse into the artist’s early stylistic and thematic interests. The work depicts several peasant figures harvesting rye in a field, rendered in Malevich’s distinctive simplified, geometric style. This painting is part of Malevich’s extensive series focused on capturing scenes of peasant life in the Russian … Read more
This painting is a fine example of Malevich’s Suprematist style which came about during the 1910s. This particular piece is dated at 1916 and can now be found in St Petersburg at the highly respected Russian Museum, where the full breadth of this nation’s artistic output is on display. This painting features a myriad of … Read more
Supremus No.50 dates from 1915 and at this point the artist, Malevich, was perfecting his Suprematist art style. It involved the use of squares and lines in simple abstract arrangements. Malevich would demonstrate here his desire to reject reality entirely within his paintings by this stage of his career. He did not want people to … Read more
Kazimir Malevich’s “Suprematist Composition (with Eight Red Rectangles)” is an icon of 20th-century abstract art, dating back to 1915. Fittingly named, this piece features eight red rectangles, each of varying sizes and orientations, collated together in a seemingly weightless environment. This painting stands as one of the earliest examples of abstract art, breaking away from … Read more
We find here one of the simpler variants from the Suprematist period of Kazimir Malevich. The Russian painter would sketch out his ideas first on paper before then working with oils, often making use of very limited palettes of colour. This painting, Suprematist Composition with Plane in Projection, was entered into a high profile auction … Read more
A tilted blue triangle overlapping a larger black rectangle against a vacant white backdrop. Such basic elemental forms transformed modern art forever when Kazimir Malevich unveiled his radical Suprematist painting “Blue Triangle and Black Rectangle” in 1915. This sparse yet visually striking composition exemplified Malevich’s belief in the “supremacy of pure feeling” achieved through abstract … Read more