Russian Avant Garde Oil Painting with frame

"Portrait f Ivan Kliun"

Oil painting on cardboard

Sign Kazimir Malevich

 1913

size of painting  : 40 x 30 cm

size of frame : 46 x 36 cm

Hand painted

Condition is good

With wood frame and glass

Kazimir Malevich ( 1878-1935)

was a Russian painter and art theorist, pioneer of geometric abstract art and originator of the Avant Garde Suprematist movement.

Perfected Portrait of Ivan Kliun embodies one of the constant motifs in the oeuvre of Kazimir Malevich and is traditionally associated with one of his closest friends and followers, the artist Ivan Kliun. Perfected Portrait of Ivan Kliun was first shown at the Union of Youth exhibition (1913–14) and is one of the most typical examples of Cubo-Futurism, both in Malevich’s oeuvre and the Russian painting of the period in general. Wholly in the spirit of its time, Perfected Portrait of Ivan Kliun pays tribute to the theomachies moods of these years, which were particularly widespread among the artistic youth of Russia. Malevich makes a «preparation» of the iconic prototype — the image of the Saviour Not Made by Human Hands — and imparts special expression to the enormous cleaved eye, which becomes an original paraphrase of the All-Seeing Eye.

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