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Artist or Maker: Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935)

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Description: Sensations mélangées
pencil on buff paper
sight: 5 1/4 x 7 7/8 in. (13.3 x 20 cm.)
Drawn circa 1916

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Provenance: Anna Aleksandrovna Leporskaya, Leningrad.
Miroslav Lamac-Jiri Padrta. Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne.
Acquired from the above by the present owners in 1977.

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Exhibited: Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, Progressive russische Kunst. Der Aufbruch bis 1930, 1973, no. 62 (illustrated).
Miami, The Lowe Art Museum, The Russian Avant-Garde and American Abstract Artists, March - April 1983, no. 20.

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Published: A. Nakov, Kazimir Malewicz, Catalogue Raisonné, Paris, 2000, no. S-406 (illustrated p. 266).

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Notes: PROPERTY FROM THE SACKNER ARCHIVE, FLORIDA

Sensations mélangées stylistically and chronologically falls between Black Square in a White Field (1915) and White on White (1918), considered the bookends of Suprematism. Malevich found in the purity of geometric form the perfect expression of the theoretical principles espoused in his pivotal book The Non-Objective World (1927) and the present drawing perfectly displays the almost sacred austerity of his aesthetic credo. Geometric shapes are found floating weightless in a composition where colour has been banned. Sensations mélangées epitomises the artist's ultimate aim - the spiritual quest for harmony through the extreme simplification of form and colour.

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