Black Square, Kazimir Malevich
Kazimir Malevich·Black Square·1915·Oil on linen·State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow↓

Kazimir Malevich Ukrainian-born Russian, 1879 – 1935

Black Square, 1915

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The zero point of painting. At the "0.10" exhibition in Petrograd, Malevich hung it high across the corner of the room, the place reserved for the icon in a Russian home. Today the surface is crazed with cracks.

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X-rays and infrared studies revealed earlier compositions underneath, and a faint pencilled inscription on the white border.

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