Suprematism
1916 · Oil on canvas · State Russian Museum, St Petersburg
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935)
- Year
- 1916
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 80.5 × 71 cm
- Collection
- State Russian Museum, St Petersburg
- Movement
- Suprematism
Rectangles and bars in red, yellow, black, pink and pale blue float diagonally across a white ground, with a blue crescent at upper right, a small green disc at left and clusters of thin lines and tiny planes trailing toward the lower right, like objects scattered through space. There is no ground line and no perspective; scale and colour alone suggest depth. Malevich painted it in 1916, a year after the Petrograd exhibition at which he introduced Suprematism with his Black Square, and it belongs to the more complex compositions of that year, in which many forms move together along a dominant diagonal. He described such pictures as glimpses of a weightless, infinite white space. It is in the State Russian Museum in St Petersburg.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Red, yellow and black bars with a blue crescent drifting across white space, for a home office, teenager's room or study at 16×24 in black. A white or pale grey wall; it pairs with Untitled (Suprematist Composition).
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Suprematism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1916)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- study or library, home office, living room, dining room, dorm room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. 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. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
