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Kazimir Malevich - Russian Avant-Garde Art
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Portrait of Malevich, 1933

Portrait of Malevich, 1933

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Ivan Kliun. Portrait of Kazimir Malevich, 1933. Watercolor, pencil, and chalk on paper. 31.3 X 41.9 (C548). Signed and dated: “I.Kliun 1933”.

Portrait of  the sculptor Pavlov, 1933

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Oil on canvas. 45.5 X 36 (Tretiakov Gallery TR87). Signed “K. Malevich”. From a private collection, Moscow. Pavlov was an admired of Malevich and a person of some authority and power. Costakis relates that Pavlov was one of the people involved in the organization of Malevich’s funeral, in the construction of his coffin according to the artist’s specifications, and in the location of his grave under an

Portrait of the sculptor Pavlov, 1933

oak tree. On the reverse of the portrait Malevich had originally inscribed the name “Pavlov”. He later added a dative ending (“to Pavlov”) and “from Malevich.”
Woman in Childbirth, 1908

Woman in Childbirth, 1908

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Oil and pencil on board. 24.7 X 25.6 Signed and dated:”Kazimir Malevich 1908” Aquired from M. S. Malevich. A study for this work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. In the pencil study the woman’s head is surrounded by the 

same fragmentary limbs, but in the final work the red background has become a tapestry of tiny fetuses. Malevich’s explicity Symbolist imagery and style at this moment are comparable to Kliun’s.

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