The White Cross is part of the collection of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. That institution host a number of artworks from Malevich’s career, making it one of the best public art galleries from which to learn more about this famous Russian painter. Белый крест, to use its original Russian title, is simplicity itself. Malevich … Read more
Kazimir Malevich’s “White on White” stands as a paradigm of Russian Suprematism, an emblematic demonstration of abstraction and minimalism in art. Created in 1918, this oil-on-canvas painting is an epitome of Malevich’s exploration into the realms of pure form, unanchored by the constraints of objective reality. In it, we observe a delicately angled white square … Read more
This is one of a number of Malevich drawings to be found in the collection of the Guggenheim Museum, specifically the venue in New York, USA. These items have been dated to around the artist’s Suprematist period but no more accurately than that. Kazimir Malevich reduced his forms down to the simplest arrangements possible during … Read more
This drawing was produced in gouache and pencil on paper. It can be found in the collection of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, USA. It has been given a very loose date of around 1919-26. The artist would sketch out his ideas before then producing more precise drawings in which he would really try … Read more
This painting is dated at 1903, placing it very early in the career of Kazimir Malevich. It is Impressionist in style, but the artist would eventually move away from this approach as his career developed. A bright sky lights the entire scene within this painting, with a hill or small building found in the distance. … Read more
Two Female Nudes Gathering Pears is a lesser known painting by Kazimir Malevich which dates from around 1909. It features two figures within a forest setting and is far removed from the signature style used by the artist later in life. Very little information is available on this painting other than that it is sized … Read more
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