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Kazimir Severinovich MALEVICH

Born 1878, Kiev - died 1935, Leningrad.

Painter, graphic artist and designer for theatre, architecture and various industrial disciplines

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A Lady at the Poster Column. 1914.

The Knife-Sharpener. 1912.

Vanity Case. 1913.

Architecton "Beta".
Before May 1926.

Suprematism with Eight
Red Rectangles). 1915.

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Paintings:

Flower-Girl. 1903.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 80x100 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Boulevard. 1903.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 56x66 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Unemployed Girl. 1904.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 80x66 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Spring. A Garden in Bloom. 1904.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 44x65 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Portrait of a Member of the Artist's Family. 1906.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard, 68x99 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

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Self-Portrait. Study for a Fresco Painting. 1907.Kazimir Malevich

Tempera on cardboard, 69.3x71.5 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Triumph of the Heavens. 1907. Study for a Fresco Painting.Kazimir Malevich

Tempera on cardboard, 69.3x70 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Prayer. Study for a Fresco Painting. 1908.Kazimir Malevich

Tempera on cardboard, 70x74.8 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

High Society in Top Hats, Relaxing. 1908.Kazimir Malevich

Watercolor and gouache on cardboard, 23.8x30.2 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

The Shroud of Christ. 1908.Kazimir Malevich

Gouache on paper, 23.4x34.3 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

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Bathing Women. 1908.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 59x48 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

A River in the Forest. 1908.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 53x42 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Self-Portrait. 1908 or 1910-1911(?)Kazimir Malevich

Watercolor, gouache, Indian ink, varnish on paper, 46.2x41.3 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Still Life. 1908 or 1910-1911(?)Kazimir Malevich

Watercolor, gouache on paper, 52.5x51.8 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Samovar. 1910.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 89x61 cm.
Rostov Art Museum.

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The Carpenter. 1908-1910 or after 1927?).Kazimir Malevich

Oil on plywood, 72x54 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

The Reapers. 1909-1910 (or after 1927?)Kazimir Malevich

Oil on wood, 71x103.2 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Sisters. 1910.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 76x101 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

At the Dacha. 1910-1912 (or after 1927?)Kazimir Malevich

Oil on wood, 108x72 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

The Gardener. 1911.Kazimir Malevich

Gouache on paper, 91x70 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

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A Bather. 1911.Kazimir Malevich

Gouache on paper, 105x69 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

On the Boulevard. 1911.Kazimir Malevich

Gouache on paper, 72x71 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

Peasant Women in Church. 1911 (Reverse of "The Woodcutter").Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 94x71.5 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

Chiropodist in the Bath-house. 1911-1912.Kazimir Malevich

Gouache on paper, 77.7x103.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

Province. 1911-1912.Kazimir Malevich

Gouache on paper, 70.5x70.5 cm. 
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

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The Floor Polishers. 1911-1912.Kazimir Malevich

Gouache on paper, 77.7x71.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

A Peasant Woman with Buckets and a Child. 1912.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 73x73 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

Rye Harvest. 1912.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 72x74.5 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

The Knife-Sharpener. 1912.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 79.5x79.5 cm.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA.

The Woodcutter. 1912-1913.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 94x71.5 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

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Head of a Peasant Girl. 1912-1913.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 72x74.5 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

The Non-Stop Station Kuntzevo. 1913.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 49x25.5 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Lady in Tram (Lady at the Tram Stop). 1913.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 88x88 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

Vanity Case. 1913.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on wood, 49x25.5 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Lady at Piano. 1913.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas,66.8x44 cm.
The Krasnoyarsk District Art Museum.

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Cow and Violin. 1913.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on wood, 48.8x25.8 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Desk and Room. 1913.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 79.5x79.5.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

Portrait of the Artist Ivan Kliun. 1913.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas,112x70 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Portrait of M.V.Matiushin. 1913.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 106.5x106.7 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Life in the Grand Hotel. 1913-1914.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 108x71 cm.
The Saratov Art Museum.

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A Soldier of the Guards. 1913-1914.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 57x66.5 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

Aviator. 1914.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 125x65 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

An Englishman in Moscow. 1914.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 88x57 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

A Lady at the Poster Column. 1914.Kazimir Malevich

Oil and collage on canvas, 71x64 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

Black Square. 1915.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 80x80 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

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Suprematism. Painter-like Realism of a Football-Player, Color Masses of the Fourth Dimension. 1915.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 70x54 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

Suprematism (with Blue Triangle and Black Rectangle). 1915.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 66.5x57 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

Suprematism. 1915.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 101.5x62 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

Suprematism with Eight Red Rectangles). 1915.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 57.5x48.5 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

Suprematism. 1915.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 44.5x35.5 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

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Suprematism (Supremus N50). 1915.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 97x66 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

Red Square. 1915.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 53x53 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Suprematism. Self-Portrait in Two Dimensions. 1915.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 80x62 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

Suprematism (Supremus N58 with Yellow and Black). 1916.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 97x66 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

Suprematism (Supremus N56). 1916.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 80.5x71 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

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Suprematism. 1917-1918.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 106x70.5 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

Suprematism. 1918.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 106x70.5 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

Suprematism. 1918.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 97x70 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

Black Cross. Late 1920s.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 106x106 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Black Circle. Late 1920s.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 105x105 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

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Suprematism. 1921-1927.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 72.5x51 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

Suprematism. 1921-1927.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 100.5x60 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

Suprematism. 1921-1927.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 72.5x51 cm.
Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Holland.

Bathers. 1928-1932.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 98.5x79 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Landscape with Five Houses. 1928-1932.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas,83x62 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

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At the Harvest (Marpha and Vanka). 1928-1932.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 82x61 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

A Woman with a Rake. 1928-1932.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on wood, 100x75 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Harvest. Study for the painting. 1928-1932.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on plywood, 72.8x52.8 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg. Gallery, Moscow.

Complicated Premonition (Torso in a Yellow Shirt). 1928-1932.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 99x79 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Haymaking. 1928-1932.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 85.8x65.6 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

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Head of a Peasant. 1928-1932.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on plywood, 71.7x53.8 cm. 
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Portrait of a Female. 1928-1932.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on plywood, 58x49 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Torso with a Pink Face. 1928-1932.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 72x65 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Peasant. 1928-1932.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 129x98.6 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

A Peasant in the Field. 1928-1932.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on plywood, 71.3x44.2 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

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Peasants. 1928-1932.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 77.5x88 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

A Peasant Woman. 1928-1932.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 98.5x80 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

The Red Cavalry Riding. 1928-1932.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 90x140 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Torso (Prototype of a New Image). 1928-1932.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 46x37 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Suprematism. Contour of Sportsmen. 1928-1932.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 142x164 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

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Suprematism. Female Figure. 1928-1932.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 126x106 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Three Female Figures. 1928-1932.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 47x63.5 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Two Male Figures. 1928-1932.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 99x74 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Black Square. 1929.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 106x106 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Landscape near Kiev. 1930.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on relined canvas, 48.3x63.5 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

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Portrait of a Man. 1932.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 65x55 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

A Red House. 1932.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 63x55 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

A Girl with a Red Pole. 1932-1933.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 71x61 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

A Girl with a Comb in her Hair. 1932-1933.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 35.3x31 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Portrait of a Woman. 1933.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 47x41.5 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

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Portrait of the Artist's Wife. 1933. (Natalia Andreyevna Malevich, nee Manchenko, born 1902).Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 67.5x56 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Portrait of a Man (N.N.Punin?). 1933.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 70x57 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Portrait of V.A.Pavlov (1899-1967). 1933.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 46.5x36.5 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Self-Portrait. 1933.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 73x66 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Portrait of the Artist's Daughter, Una Kazimirovna Uriman (born 1920). 1933.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 85x61.8 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

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Portrait of the Artist's Mother. 1933.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on plywood, 42x37 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Female Worker. 1933.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 71.2x59.8 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

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Theatre

Decor sketches for the opera "Victory over the Sun". 1913. Scenery by Alexei Kruchenykh, music by Mikhail Matiushin.Kazimir Malevich

Italian pencil on paper.
The Theatre Museum, St.Petersburg.

Decor sketches  for the opera "Victory over the Sun". 1913. Scenery by Alexei Kruchenykh, music by Mikhail Matiushin.Kazimir Malevich

Italian pencil on paper.
The Theatre Museum, St.Petersburg.

Decor sketches  for opera "Victory over the Sun". 1913. Scenery by Alexei Kruchenykh, music by Mikhail Matiushin.Kazimir Malevich

Italian pencil on paper.
The Theatre Museum, St.Petersburg.

Costumes design (Old Times. Sportsman. Attentive Worker. Fat Man). 1913. For the opera "Victory over the Sun", scenery by Alexei Kruchenykh, music by Mikhail Matiushin.Kazimir Malevich

Italian pencil, watercolor, Indian ink on paper.
The Theatre Museum, St.Petersburg.

Costume designs (Mugger. Nero. Reciter. A Certain Guy with Bad Intentions). 1913. For the opera "Victory over the Sun", scenery by Alexei Kruchenykh, music by Mikhail Matiushin.Kazimir Malevich

Italian pencil, watercolor, Indian ink on paper.
The Theatre Museum, St.Petersburg.

Suprematism. Study for a Curtain. 1919.Kazimir Malevich

Gouache, watercolor, lead pencil on paper, 46x62.5 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

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Design:

Principles of a Mural Painting. 1919.Kazimir Malevich

Watercolor, gouache and Indian Ink on paper.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

The First Textile Design with Suprematist Ornament. 1919.Kazimir Malevich

 

Textile Patterns. 1919.Kazimir Malevich

Watercolor on paper.
The RussianMuseum, St.Petersburg.

A Movie Poster for "Doctor Mabuzo". 1922-1927.Kazimir Malevich

Oil on canvas, 106x70.6 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

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A Teapot. 1923.Kazimir Malevich

Porcelain, 18.2x22.3x8.3 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Cups. 1923.Kazimir Malevich

Porcelain. 7x8.7x8.5 cm, 7.8x11.7x7 cm.
The Museum of Lomonossov Porcelain Factory, St.Petersburg.

Cup and Saucer "Suprematism", decorated by K.Malevich. 1923.Kazimir Malevich

Porcelain. 6.2x6.5x6.8 cm/ diameter 14.3 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Cups "Suprematism", decorated by Ilya Chashnik and by Nikolai Suyetin. 1923.Kazimir Malevich

Porcelain. 7x12.5x5.9 cm / 6x10.7x5.3 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Architecton "Beta". Before May 1926.Kazimir Malevich

Plaster, 27x59.5x99.3 cm.

Architecton "Gota". Before April 1927.Kazimir Malevich

Plaster, 57x26x36 cm.
Museum of the Pompidou Centre, Paris.

Two Architectons. 1923-1927.Kazimir Malevich

Plaster.

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Illustrations:

Cover for "The Three" by V.Khlebnikov, A.Kruchenykh and E.Guro. 1913. Publishing House "Zhuravl", St.Petersburg.Kazimir Malevich

Lithography, 18.6x17.8 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Cover for "A Game in Hell" by A.Kruchenykh and V.Khlebnikov. 1914. Publishing house "Svet", St.Petersburg.Kazimir Malevich

Lithography, 11.8x11.6 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Illustrations for "A Game in Hell" by A.Kruchenykh and V.Khlebnikov. 1914. Publishing house "Svet", St.Petersburg.Kazimir Malevich

Lithography, 11.7x11.5 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Portfolio Cover for the Congress of the Committees on Rural Poverty. 1918 (November 1918, Winter Palace, Petrograd).Kazimir Malevich

Color lithography, 28.9x29 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

Cover for "First Cycle of Lectures" by N.N.Punin. 1920.Kazimir Malevich

Color lithography, 21.4x14 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.

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Biography:

Kazimir Malevich has studied at the Drawing School, Kiev (1895-1896), MUZhVZ [Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture] (1904-1905), and the studio of Rerberg, Moscow (1905-1910).

From 1910 the artist has participated in exhibitions including Jack of Diamonds, Target, Donkey's Tail, Union of Youth, The Salon of Independents, Der Blaue Reiter, Tramway B, "O.1O".

He has designed the opera Victory over the Sun (libretto by Kruchionykh, music by Matiushin) and produced the first Suprematism sketches for the costumes and scenery (1913).

Malevich has created the first Suprematism paintings (1915) and theoretical works on contemporary art.

He has served as the head teacher at SVOMAS (1918), taught at the Art School in Vitebsk (1919-1920), and founded the UNOVIS group (Affirmers of New Art) in 1920.

He has taught at VKhUTEMAS (High State Artistic and Technical Workshops) from 1922. Served as director of GINKhUK (State Institute for Artistic Culture) in 1923-1927, and professor at the Academy of Arts from 1922.

Malevich has designed Mayakovsky's play Mistery Buff, directed by Meyerhold (1918).

He worked on designs for ceramics and architectural models (from 1923).

The artist has held the first one-man show in Moscow in 1919.

He has lived and died in Leningrad.

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