Bloomsbury Auctions: Russian Literature and Art: Lot 93
MALEVICH, Kazimir (1878-1935). Ot Sezanna do
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MALEVICH, Kazimir (1878-1935). Ot Sezanna do Suprematizma. Kriticheskii ocherk [From Cezanne To Suprematism. A Critical Essay]. [Petrograd]: Narkompros [1920]. 16 pp. Small 8vo (170 x 112 mm). Original printed wrappers. Condition: wrappers soiled with repairs, backstrip slightly chipped, a few leaves stained not affecting text, pen and pencil marks to back wrapper. first and only edition in russian of this seminal essay issued by the commissariat of enlightenment or narkompros. Making reference to his own O novykh systemakh v iskusstve [On New Systems in Art] published in Vitebsk in 1919, Malevich traces the development of various artists such as Cézanne, Millet, Courbet, Monet and Van Gogh as well as the collector Schoukine and their relationship to Malevich's own theories underlying Suprematism.
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