Suprematist works
by Kasimir Malevich

(1878-1935)

"Honor to the Futurists who forbade the painting of female hams, the painting of portraits and guitars in the moonlight. They made a huge step forward: they abandoned meat and glorified the machine."

--Kasimir Malevich, 1918

   See catalog, Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935), copyright 1990, published by the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024, ISBN 0-295-97066-9. Following are JPEG files, each about 20-40KB. Sorry, no text descriptions are provided.

  1. Self-portrait. about 1908-9. gouache, watercolor, india ink, varnish, on paper. 46.2 x 41.3cm. State Russian Museum.
  2. Portrait of Malevich, by Sergei Maliutin (1859-1937), oil on canvas. 1919. Presumed lost.
  3. Black Square. 1915. oil on canvas. 79.2 x 79.5cm. State Trefiakov Gallery.
  4. Painterly Realism. Boy with Knapsack--Color Masses in the Fourth Dimension, 1915. oil on canvas, 71.1 x 44.4cm, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
  5. Suprematist Painting. Black Rectangle, Blue Triangle. 1915. oil on canvas. 66.5 x 57cm, Stedelijk Museum.
  6. Suprematist Painting. Rectangle and Circle. 1915. oil on canvas. 43.2 x 30.7cm. Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University.
  7. Airplane Flying. 1915. oil on canvas. 57.3 x 48.3cm. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
  8. Suprematist Painting. Eight Red Rectangles. 1915. Oil on canvas. 57.5 x 48.5cm. Stedelijk Museum.
  9. Suprematism: Painterly Realism of a Football Player. Color Masses in the Fourth Dimension. 1915. 69.9 x 44cm. Stedelijk Museum. [note: the painting in the museum is hung upside down in comparison with this reproduction: we suggest you invert your computer monitor to display it correctly.]
  10. Suprematist Painting. 1915. oil on canvas. 80 x 62cm. Stedelijk Museum.
  11. Suprematism (Supremus No. 50). 1915. oil on canvas. 97 x 66cm. Stedelijk Museum.
  12. Suprematist Painting. 1915. oil on canvas. 101.5 x 62cm. Stedelijk Museum.
  13. Red Square (Peasant Woman. Suprematism). 1915. oil on canvas. 53 x 53cm. State Russian Museum.
  14. Four Squares. 1915. oil on canvas. 49 x 49cm. A. N. Radishchev State Art Museum, Saratov.
  15. Suprematism: Nonobjective Composition. 1915?. oil on canvas. 80 x 80cm. Sverdlovsk Art Gallery.
  16. Suprematism. 1915. oil on canvas. 87.5 x 72cm. State Russian Museum.
  17. Suprematism. 1915. oil on canvas. 80.5 x 81cm. State Russian Museum.
  18. Yellow and Black (Supremus No. 58). 1916. oil on canvas. 80 x 70.5cm. State Russian Museum.
  19. Suprematist Painting. 1917. oil on canvas. 96.5 x 65.4cm. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
  20. Suprematist Painting. 1917-8. oil on canvas. 106 x 70.5cm. Stedelijk Museum.
  21. Suprematist Painting. 1917-8. oil on canvas. 97 x 70cm. Stedelijk Museum.
  22. Suprematist Painting. 1917-8. oil on canvas. 97 x 70cm. Stedelijk Museum.
  23. White Square on White. 1918. oil on canvas. 78.7 x 78.7cm. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
  24. Black Square. about 1923. oil on canvas. 106 x 106cm. State Russian Museum.
  25. Black Cross. about 1923. oil on canvas. 106 x 106cm. State Russian Museum.
  26. Black Circle. about 1923. oil on canvas. 105 x 105cm. State Russian Museum.
  27. Suprematist Painting. before 1927. oil on canvas. 84 x 69.5cm. Stedelijk Museum.
  28. Suprematist Painting. before 1928. oil on canvas. 88 x 68.5cm. Stedelijk Museum.
  29. Suprematist Painting. about 1927. oil on canvas. 72.5 x 51cm. Stedelijk Museum.
  30. Black Square. 1929. oil on canvas. 79.5 x 79.5cm. State Trefiakov Gallery.

We include here only the Suprematist paintings of Malevich (aside from the portraits), not the drawings nor watercolors, nor the earlier cubist-futurist, nor the later figurative paintings, nor arkhitektons. Please note that at times some of these works have been hung upside down; the artist's intent is not always certain. See the catalog for further details.

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