Untitled (Suprematist Composition)
c. 1916 · Oil on canvas · Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
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About this work
- Artist
- Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935)
- Year
- c. 1916
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 53 × 53 cm
- Collection
- Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
- Movement
- Suprematism
On an off-white ground, a tilted green trapezium, a black vertical bar, a blue shape and a red triangle cluster together with a scatter of thin rods in red, yellow, grey and teal, as if the forms were drifting or falling through empty space. Nothing rests on a horizon; the white is open, weightless space. Malevich painted it around 1916, the year after he launched Suprematism at an exhibition of abstract paintings in Petrograd in December 1915, where he showed his Black Square. Suprematism, as he described it, sought the supremacy of pure feeling in art, using flat geometric forms freed from any object. Compositions like this one, with several forms held in dynamic balance, followed the single-shape pictures of the first months. It is in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A green trapezium, black bar and red triangle floating on an off-white ground, for a home office, study or teenager's room at 24×36 in black. A white or pale grey wall; it pairs with Suprematism.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Suprematism painting
- Era
- 20th century (c. 1916)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- study or library, home office, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×36. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — natural wood flatters the lighter palette; black sharpens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
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An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
