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Published on June 19, 2020 / Updated on October 21, 2026
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Malevich's paintings span far more than a single black square. They move from landscapes and rural figures through fractured machine-age scenes, alogical combinations, boldly coloured Suprematism, pale-on-pale canvases and a return to figures. This page follows that changing practice through identified objects, then preserves the site's existing artwork browse grid. A familiar title is not enough to identify a painting: museums record versions, dates, supports, sizes and accession numbers that distinguish one physical object from another. [1], [2], [3]

The difference is especially important for a painter who repeated forms and sometimes put a retrospective date on a late canvas. The first Black Square is a 1915 Tretyakov object; the same museum also holds a 1929 version. The first is neither an interchangeable picture file nor a generic symbol detached from its material and exhibition history. The painting pages linked below name their specific works, and the shared all-known-artworks directory is being reconciled separately from this site's 85 existing browse links. [2], [3]

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At a glance

  • Early interestsLandscape, rural labour, figures and expressive colour
  • 1912–14 experimentsCubo-Futurist movement and alogical combinations of objects and signs
  • 1915–18 turning pointSuprematist black forms, coloured planes, then pale-on-pale compositions
  • Later paintingNew rural figures and portraits alongside continued geometric thinking
  • Essential catalogue checkMatch each title to a date, medium, owner and accession; keep versions separate
  • On this pageChronological guide plus 85 preserved local artwork-card links

Contents

  1. Before the square: landscapes and rural figures
  2. Cubo-Futurism: movement and labour
  3. Alogical combinations and the edge of representation
  4. 1915: black forms and the first Suprematist display
  5. Colour, flight and the rhythm of Suprematism
  6. White on white and the meaning of a painted field
  7. Late figures and retrospective dates
  8. Looking closely with the high-resolution images
  9. How to use the painting browse grid
  10. Explore the existing artwork pages

Before the square: landscapes and rural figures

Malevich did not begin with nonobjective painting. Early landscapes and people gave him forms he could simplify, flatten and intensify. The Russian Museum records several works from about 1906, including Landscape (Ж-9452) and Landscape with a Yellow House (Winter Landscape) (Ж-9411), as oil and wax tempera on cardboard. Those supports and media locate an early practice of making pictures from observed or imagined places. They also show why “Malevich paintings” cannot be reduced to oil on canvas or to a date range beginning in 1915. [4], [5]

In Taking in the Rye, a field worker and the rhythm of labour remain legible even as shapes become strongly ordered. The Stedelijk identifies its particular canvas as version II and dates it 1912; an older local image filename used 1911. The owner record controls the page's date. Morning in the Village after Snowstorm, held by the Guggenheim, transforms a peasant scene with colour and repeated rounded figures. Neither work is merely a failed attempt at abstraction. Both investigate how repeated bodies, tools, snow or crop fields can organise a painting. [6], [7]

The rural subject would return decades later. That does not mean the later canvases simply retrace the early ones: a worker painted in the early 1910s and a faceless late peasant picture belong to different circumstances and visual arguments. The relation is best traced through exact works rather than a smooth story of progress from realism to abstraction and back. [6], [16]

Cubo-Futurism: movement and labour

The 1912–13 Woman with Pails: Dynamic Arrangement still shows a person carrying water, yet repeated conical forms make her movement a central visual event. MoMA catalogues the canvas as oil on canvas, 80.3 centimetres square, with a 1912 date written on its reverse while the institution's work date is 1912–13. Those two pieces of dating evidence can coexist; the reverse inscription need not be silently substituted for the museum's range. The figure's job also matters: abstraction begins here within a recognisable account of work. [8]

The Yale University Art Gallery's The Knife Grinder places a worker and machine in an almost vibrating sequence of planes. A hand, blade and turning wheel become difficult to separate on a first glance; the repeated marks convey action rather than a frozen portrait. Yale identifies its physical work as 1941.553. The painting's recorded display in a 1922 Berlin exhibition should not be confused with Malevich's later 1927 journey to the city. The art historical phase label “Cubo-Futurism” describes one way of understanding the picture, but the person and labour remain visible. [9]

Other canvases complicate a simple choice between recognizable subject and new construction. The Woodcutter has a second painted image, Peasant Women at Church, on the reverse of the Stedelijk's physical support. Its object number A 7679 identifies both sides of one work, a fact that a one-sided thumbnail cannot show. Read with Woman with Pails and The Knife Grinder, it reminds us that Malevich's early experiments were carried by material canvases with histories of reuse and revision. [10]

Alogical combinations and the edge of representation

In An Englishman in Moscow, the Stedelijk's A 7656 painting, a face, objects, writing and divergent scales do not settle into an ordinary scene. The Stedelijk later discovered a 1914 drawing on squared paper related to it, giving the painting a documented paper comparison. That discovery does not license an imagined preparatory drawing for every other alogical composition. It gives one concrete example of Malevich trying out an arrangement before or around a painted work. [11], [12]

The Russian Museum's Composition with the Mona Lisa retains a fragment of a famous image inside a disrupted field of marks, shapes and signs. Its owner catalogue identifies a 1914 work, accession ЖС-440, acquired by the museum in 1991. Older publications and reproductions have described another collection context, so the specific Russian Museum object is the anchor here. In these paintings Malevich did not simply stop using recognisable things; he put them under pressure until their inherited meanings became unstable. [13]

1915: black forms and the first Suprematist display

The 1915 Black Square was placed high in a corner at the 0.10 exhibition in Petrograd. Its location and pale border turned a stark geometric image into an event in a crowded installation. The work's irregular painted edge and now-visible cracking also resist the idea that it is just a mechanically perfect icon. The Tretyakov's exact first canvas has inventory 11925; a 1929 Tretyakov square is another physical painting with its own date and condition. [2], [3]

Black shapes did not all mean one canvas. The Black Cross page concerns the 1915 Centre Pompidou painting, while the owner's high-resolution black-cross image matches a later Russian Museum version and is used on that page only as a labelled comparison. The Black Circle page identifies the Russian Museum painting Ж-9472, which that museum dates to about 1923; it should not acquire a 1915 date just because the black circle entered Malevich's early Suprematist vocabulary. The motifs and the surviving objects have different chronologies. [14], [15]

The first Black Square has a longer work-specific study that covers its 0.10 installation, later versions, cracked surface, material investigations, interpretations and documented afterlife. On this hub, the square is a turning point within a painter's wider practice, not a substitute for the rest of it. [2]

Colour, flight and the rhythm of Suprematism

Malevich's Red Square gives a deliberately irregular red quadrilateral room inside a pale field. The Russian Museum identifies the 1915 object as Жб-1643. A conservation study found a planned more regular outline and a later extension at its upper-right corner; the visible irregularity reflects a worked decision. The title's geometry and the painting's hand-made edge must both be kept in view. [16], [17]

Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying places coloured units at different intervals and angles. MoMA identifies its oil canvas as 248.1935 and dates it 1915, while noting “1914” on the reverse. The title's flight language invites a comparison with the period's new sense of motion and space, but the work does not depict an ordinary airplane. A Tretyakov 1920 lithograph also uses “Airplane Flying” in its title; it is a different work on paper, not this canvas. [18], [19]

The 1916 Suprematist Composition often reproduced with a large blue tilted plane has the exact object number S-97 in its historical record and belongs to the Art Institute of Chicago. The owner's high-resolution image used on its article gives a clear view of its coloured planes. A generic “Suprematist Composition” label elsewhere does not automatically identify this large canvas. The same caution applies to the many other paintings with variants of “Suprematism” in their title. [20]

The newly researched Supremus No. 55 is a separate 80 × 80 cm Krasnodar canvas with a large brown diagonal plane and curved black form. The Guggenheim catalogue illustrates it on page 164 and identifies museum inventory Ж-358. A Krasnodar museum-associated record gives 1915–16 where that catalogue gives 1916; a scholar's citation of a 1917 letter complicates the chronology further. Its high-resolution owner image and five annotated details belong to this exact square painting, not the existing Supremus No. 50 route or a different rectangular 1917 work also numbered 55. [28]

The Painterly Realism of a Football Player canvas makes visible the gulf between a descriptive title and a nonobjective picture. Technical examination of the Art Institute's 2011.1 object found drawn planning, changed forms, a worked white field and distinct material choices. That evidence attaches to the specific Football Player canvas; it cannot be copied onto every geometric painting as though Malevich used one universal recipe. Its title also preserves his interest in movement and “colour masses,” even when no footballer appears. [21]

Another small composition, Painterly Realism of a Boy with a Knapsack, reduces its ostensible subject to two forms. MoMA identifies its painting as 816.1935. Set against the one dominant black or red form of the square canvases, this is a different balance of coloured elements. The comparison is visually useful precisely because the objects remain distinct. [22]

White on white and the meaning of a painted field

MoMA's Suprematist Composition: White on White, 817.1935, is dated 1918. A tilted pale quadrilateral sits against a pale field. The slight shift in tone and orientation asks the viewer to read what might otherwise appear empty. It is a material painting with a support, layers and surface, not a digital blank. Its disappearance of strong colour is one direction within Malevich's practice, not proof that every subsequent painting stopped using colour or figures. [23]

Technical descriptions of other white-on-white canvases cannot be silently transferred to this MoMA object. Ann Hoenigswald's conservation essay documents differing gloss relationships in two separately identified 1917–18 white compositions. Those observations help ask what kind of surface effect may matter, but pigment and finish claims require exact-object evidence. The page on style and technique sets out how supports, grounds and different paint layers complicate a screen image. [17], [23]

Late figures and retrospective dates

Later paintings brought people, fields and faces back into prominent view. The Russian Museum dates Red Cavalry to about 1932 despite the inscription “1918” on the canvas. A thin band of tiny riders crosses above broad coloured horizontal zones; an observer sees a figural episode held within a highly constructed colour field. The gap between inscription and owner date is not an error to hide. It is part of the work's record and the reason a catalogue should distinguish a written date from a researched production date. [24]

The same museum dates Sportsmen to 1928–32. Its four frontal figures are divided by boldly coloured areas, their faces reduced so they operate partly as repeated signs. Head of a Peasant is anchored to Russian Museum Ж-9488, not another same-title museum work, Ж-9473. The Tretyakov's Girl with a Comb in Her Hair is a 1932–33 portrait, accession Инв.20843. Their bodies and faces are not a single late style: each work gives a distinct relation between human figure, colour and simplified structure. [25], [26], [27]

Older interpretations sometimes tell a neat story in which Suprematism simply ended and realism returned under political pressure. The visual and catalogue evidence supports a more careful account. Late works can carry retrospective dates, specific figural subjects and arrangements that retain geometric simplification. Their individual histories and the surrounding Soviet context matter, but an undated assertion about what Malevich “had to” paint is not enough to explain a canvas. The biography and theory guide treat those histories in more detail. [1], [24], [25]

Looking closely with the high-resolution images

The owner's high-resolution reproductions give readers a practical way to compare six very different physical paintings: the cracked 1915 Black Square, the shifted red outline of Red Square, the broad dark form of the later Black Circle, the many weighted shapes in the 1916 S-97 Suprematist Composition, the narrow riders above horizontal bands in Red Cavalry, and the crossing planes of the Krasnodar Supremus No. 55. Their article pages offer work-specific annotated details. Each image is tied to an identified museum object or documented version, so a crop can be read with the right date and title. [2], [15], [16], [20], [24], [28]

High resolution makes edges, spacing and visible surface changes easier to inspect, but a photograph does not tell us every material fact. The dark crazing visible on Black Square is part of the aged canvas; it does not show exactly how the work looked in 1915. The shape of Red Square can be compared in a photograph, while the account of its planning and alteration comes from conservation research. The different gloss of Red Cavalry's bands is likewise an object-specific conservation observation that a screen can only partly convey. Keeping visible evidence and tested evidence separate makes the annotations more useful. [2], [17], [24]

How to use the painting browse grid

The 85 cards below preserve the site's existing linked artwork routes and thumbnail images. They are a route index, not a verified catalogue of all Malevich paintings. Some titles are generic; some route identities, dates or pictured versions still need museum-level checking. The all-known-artworks directory being assembled for the artist cluster draws on a much wider institutional source register and will replace any claim that these 85 cards exhaust the painted corpus. [1]

Begin with the researched articles above if you need a confirmed version and collection. If a card has no exact-work dossier yet, its legacy page remains available for navigation while its identification is reviewed. A familiar image can invite exploration, but the source citation beside an exact painting is what supports a date, medium, accession and interpretation. [1]

Explore the existing artwork pages

The card grid follows here. Its image and title links have been retained, including works that are still pending exact object identity checks.

Documented Malevich collection records

Explore 665 catalogued source objects from museums and archives, including 87 exact links to local artwork pages. Records include works, print impressions, book components and archival items; they are not a deduplicated or complete oeuvre. Medium labels are grouped into broad English categories. Titles link to local artwork pages where available.

665 records

Artwork titleDateMedium
"Front line soldier" (Ratnik 1-go razriada)Δεκαετία 1920Photograph
[Le Cheval blanc][circa 1930 - 1931]Painting
[Sensation du danger][1930 - 1931]Painting
A Game in Hell, Petrograd, 1913 (2nd expanded edition)1913Book
A Game in Hell: A Poem (Igra v adu: Poema)1914Book
A Peasant Woman Goes for Water1913Print
A pork-butcher came around to Lodz and we said "Good day." From Lodz to neighboring Radom he passed, and left behind one sorry ass. (Podoshel kolbasnik k Lodzi / my skazali : 'Pan dobrodzi!' Nu, a s Lodz'iu riadom Radom / i ushel s podbitym zadom.)c. 1914Print
Alogisme 1. Portret Moskovskoy Damy (Alogisme 1. Portret van een Moskouse dame)1914Drawing
Alogisme 2. Vis, zaag, lepel, telegraafpaal1914Drawing
Alogisme 22. Malorossiyanin (Alogisme 22. Een kleine Rus)1915Drawing
Alogisme 23. Sobol, koshka (Alogisme 23. Sabel, kat)1915Drawing
Alogisme 29. Derevnya1915Drawing
Alogisme 3. Chastichnoe zatmenie (Alogisme 3. Gedeeltelijke eclips)1914Drawing
Alogisme 4. Apteka (Alogisme 4. Apotheek)1914Drawing
Alpha1923 / 1978Sculpture or object
An Austrian was going to Radzivily1914Print
An Austrian was going to Radzivily1914Print
Analytical Chart1924–27Drawing
Analytical Chart1924–27Drawing
Analytical Chart1924–27Drawing
Analytical Chart1924–27Drawing
Analytical Chart1924–27Drawing
Announcement for Malevich's lecture in Orenburg1917-1920Print
Apple Tree in Blossomc. 1930Painting
Architecton Alpha1920Sculpture or object
Architecton Gota1923 (?)Sculpture or object
Architectonische constructie1917 (versie ca. 1925)Drawing
Architectons and FigurinesSpäte 1920er JahreSculpture or object
Architecturaal-kosmische compositie1920 (latere versie (1927?))Drawing
Architectural constructionca. 1917Drawing
Aritmetica1913Drawing
Aritmetica1913Drawing
Arkhitekton Zeta1926Photograph
At Harvesting (Marfa and Vanka)1928-1929Painting
Aveniriensvers 1931 - 1932Drawing
Aviator1914Painting
Aviator v Pobede nad solntsem (Vliegenier in Overwinning op de zon)1913 (versie ca. 1929)Drawing
Baadsters op de rug gezien1910Painting
Back cover from Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)1913–14, published 1914Book
Back cover from Vzorval' (Explodity)1913Book
Bader1911Drawing
Betende Bäuerin1933Drawing
Biddende figuurmotief ca 1922, versie voor 1927Drawing
Birkenhainum 1905 - 06Painting
Black Circlec. 1923Painting
Black Crossc. 1923Painting
Black quadrilateral1915Painting
Black Squarec. 1923Painting
Black Square and Circle1920-1921Drawing
Black Square and White Cylindrical Form1915Drawing
Black Square, Second State1915/20Drawing
BlacksmithStudy. 1933Painting
Blestifze (Pencils)1917–1918Drawing
Boer met baardca 1930Drawing
Boerenvrouw in het veldca. 1929-1930Drawing
Boerenvrouw met emmers1912Painting
Book of Selected Poems (Kniga izbrannykh Stikhotvorenii)1930Book
Boy (Vanka)1928–1929Painting
Boy wuth knapsack / Mal'chyk s rantsem1915Print
Brooch1920Sculpture or object
Brooch1920Sculpture or object
Bubnovy Valet 21. Boerenvrouw met kind1911-1912 (latere versie)Drawing
Bubnovy Valet 40. Portret (van M.F. Larionov?)1910Drawing
Bubnovy Valet 41. Na uglu stoit apteka, lyubov sushit tseloveka (De drogist is op de hoek, van liefde droogt een man uit)1910-1911 (versie ca. 1930)Drawing
Bubnovy Valet 42. Portret moei rodstvennitsy (Bubnovy Valet 42. Portret van mijn familielid)1911Drawing
Bubnovy Valet 43. Kop van een boer1912 (latere versie)Drawing
Bubnovy Valet 44. Dansend paar1912Drawing
Bubnovy Valet 57. Lopende man1911Drawing
Bubnovy valet 8. Kop van een boer1912Drawing
Budetliyansky silach (Futuristische sterke man)1913 (versie 1915)Drawing
Bêtaavant 1926 / 1978Sculpture or object
Car and LadyPhotograph
Carpenter1928–1929Painting
Carré noir[1923 - 1930]Sculpture or object
Chelovek v ochkakh (Man met bril)ca 1929Drawing
Compositie 1 z (Supremus nr. 67)1916 (versie jaren 1920)Drawing
Compositie 10 t (Suprematisme: constructief moment)1917Drawing
Compositie 11 t (Supremus nr.18: constructievorming afhankelijk van de beweging naar een bol )1916Drawing
Compositie 13 t (Supremus nr 38)1915-1916Drawing
Compositie 13 t (Supremus nr 38)1915-1916 (gedrukt 1920, annotaties jaren 1920)Print
Compositie 14 t Oshchushchenie elektrichestva (Compositie 14 t Gevoel van electriciteit)1915Drawing
Compositie 15 k (Suprematisme)1916 (versie begin jaren 1920)Drawing
Compositie 15 q (Supremus nr. 118)1918Drawing
Compositie 16 t (Suprematisme: groot zwart trapezium en vierkant tussen rechthoeken en lijnen)1915Drawing
Compositie 2 i (Suprematisme: gecombineerd gevoel: cirkel en vierkant)1916 (latere versie)Drawing
Compositie 2 t (Verlengd vierkant met elementen overdwars)1915 (versie ca. 1920)Drawing
Compositie 2 z Obshchushchenie magnita (Compositie 2 z Gevoel van een magneet)1916 (hernomen in 1919, versie jaren 1920)Drawing
Compositie 3 t1916Drawing
Compositie 4 l Suprematisme van de geest1919Drawing
Compositie 4 t (Suprematisme: cirkel tussen rechthoeken en driehoeken)1916Drawing
Compositie 4 z (Supremus nr. 84)1916 (latere versie)Drawing
Compositie 5 l Suprematisme van de geest1919Drawing
Compositie 6 d (Tekening verwant aan ‘Huis in aanbouw’)1915Drawing
Compositie 6 t Obshchushchenie vremeni (Compositie 6 t Gevoel van tijd)1916Drawing
Compositie 9 b. Fevralizm kak emotionizm (Compositie 9 b. Februarisme als emotionisme)1915Drawing
Compositie 9 h (Suprematisme: kruis en drie rechthoeken)1916 (versie 1920)Drawing
Compositie 9 k (Suprematisme: zeven rechthoeken)1915Drawing
Compositie 9 t (Suprematisme: vier ruimtelijke elementen tegen een zwart trapezium)1915Drawing
Composition 1 e (Suprematisme: vierkant op diagonaal vlak)1915Drawing
Composition 1 t[1916 / vers 1920]Drawing
Composition 14 f[1918]Drawing
Composition 15 t1916Drawing
Composition 2 a[1917 - 1918]Drawing
Composition 3 z[1919 / avant 1930]Drawing
Composition 5 x[été 1915]Drawing
Composition 5 x[été 1915]Drawing
Composition alogique[1915]Drawing
Composition with La Gioconda (Partial Eclipse)1914Painting
Compositions 11 Rcirca 1915–16Drawing
Construction 5 h1916Drawing
Costume study for the Budetlyan Athlete in Victory over the Sun1913Drawing
Cow and Violin1913Painting
Cow and Violin from On New Systems in Art (O Novykh Sistemakh Visk Usstve)1911–19Print
Croix [noire][1915]Painting
Croix noire[vers 1923 - 1926]Sculpture or object
Dame1915Drawing
Dame an der Straßenbahnhaltestelle1913Drawing
Dame bij reclamezuil1914Painting
De gardist1913-1914Other
De houthakker (recto) / Boerenvrouwen in kerk (verso)1912Painting
De likdoornsnijder1911Drawing
De likdoornsnijder1911Drawing
De provincie1910Painting
De tuinman1911Painting
De vloerboeners1911Drawing
Der Häftling1930Drawing
Der Tod eines Menschen, gleichzeitig im Flugzeug und der Eisenbahnum 1913Print
Desk and Room (legacy site: Bureau and Room)1913Painting
Dessin de Lissitzky d'après "Supremus n° 58, composition dynamique jaune et noire", 1916, de Malevitch[1924]Drawing
Deux plans de villes[1916 / avant 1930]Drawing
Deux plans en extension[1916 - 1919]Drawing
Diagrammaround 1917/1918Drawing
Die Hochzeit1903Other
Die Waschfrau1911Painting
Dorpca. 1906Other
Dorpje1908Drawing
Drei Köpfeafter 1930Drawing
Drie boerenvrouwen1917-1919 of eind jaren 1920Drawing
Drie figuren in een landschapca. 1928-1930Drawing
Drie naakte vrouwen en een kind, peren plukkend1909Drawing
Drie staande vrouwen1930Drawing
Drie vrouwenfigurenca 1905-1906Drawing
Druckstock für Holzschnitt1920Print
Dynamic Construction1923Photograph
Dynamic Figure from On New Systems in Art (O Novykh Sistemakh V Iskusstve)1911Print
Dynamic Suprematism1915/16Painting
Dynamisch suprematisme1917-1918Drawing
Een Engelsman in Moskou1914Painting
Een paar onder bomenca 1929Drawing
Elegant gezelschap in een parkca 1908Drawing
Elementarer Suprematismus1917Drawing
Eléments d'architectone[après 1924]Drawing
Eléments non identifiés[1923 - 1935]Sculpture or object
Engelsman in Moskou1913-1914Drawing
Entwurf für das Gemälde 'Die roten Häuser'1910Drawing
Entwurf für die Bemalung der Pfeiler aus der Serie von Entwürfen für die Ausgestaltung des Roten Theaters in Leningrad1931Drawing
Entwurf für eine Deckenmalerei im Roten Theater in Leningrad1931Drawing
Eskiz k portretu Roslavtsa. Pesn golubym oblakam (Schets voor portret van de componist Roslavets. Lied van de blauwe wolken)1907-1908Drawing
Etude de paysanfin 1911Drawing
Etyud suprematis 52 sistema A 41916-1917 (versie 1920-1927)Drawing
Explodity (Vzorval')1913Book
Explodity (Vzorval')1913Book
Explodity (Vzorval)1913Book
Female Figure1928–1929Painting
Female portraitca. 1910-1911Painting
Female Torso1928–1929Painting
Female Torso1928-1929Painting
Figur mit ausgebreiteten Armen, ein Kreuz bildend1933Drawing
Figuren in Schwarz und Weiß1928/1930Drawing
Flower Seller1930Painting
Folio 1 from Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)1913–14, published 1914Book
Folio 15 from Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)1913–14, published 1914Book
Folio 17 verso from Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)1913–14, published 1914Book
Folio 18 from Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)1913–14, published 1914Book
Folio 19 from Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)1913–14, published 1914Book
Folio 19 from Vzorval' (Explodity)1913Book
Folio 20 from Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)1913–14, published 1914Book
Folio 23 from Vzorval' (Explodity)1913Book
Folio 25 from Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)1913–14, published 1914Book
Folio 27 from Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)1913–14, published 1914Book
Folio 27 from Vzorval' (Explodity)1913Book
Folio 29 from Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)1913–14, published 1914Book
Folio 31 from Vzorval' (Explodity)1913Book
Folio 32 verso from Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)1913–14, published 1914Book
Folio 34 verso from Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)1913–14, published 1914Book
Folio 37 from Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)1913–14, published 1914Book
Folio 4 verso from Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)1913–14, published 1914Book
Folio 7 from Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)1913–14, published 1914Book
Folio 9 from Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)1913–14, published 1914Book
Footballer / Futbolist1915Print
Four Squares1915Painting
Fragmenten van een tekst over het suprematisme1927Other
From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism (Ot kubizma i futurizma k suprematizmu)1916Book
Front cover from Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)1913–14, published 1914Book
Fruit plukken / Overvloed1909Painting
Fuhrleute1909-1910Drawing
Full portrait of Malevich1931Photograph
Futuristische draak1913Print
Futurizm: dvizhenie cheloveka po lestnitse (Futurisme: beweging van een man op een trap)1919Drawing
Gebet IIum 1913Print
Gesellschaft in Zylindern1907Drawing
Girl in the Countryside1928–1929Painting
Girls in a Field1928-1929Painting
Gliad', pogliad' uzh blizko Visly. Nemtsev puchit, znachit kislo.1914/1918?Print
Glyad, poglyad, uzh blizko Visly1914Print
Golgathaaround 1911Drawing
Gota1923 / 1978Sculpture or object
Gota 2-a1923 / 1978Sculpture or object
Grafik ...ca. 1923Other
Grafik dvizheniya tvorcheskikh edinits v beskonechnostica. 1923Other
Grammatica1913Drawing
HarvestingStudy for a painting. 1928–1929Painting
Head of a PeasantEarly 1930sPainting
Head of a Peasant1928-1929Painting
Head of a Peasant1928–1929Painting
Hiëratisch suprematistisch kruis (groot kruis in zwart over rood op wit)1920-1921Painting
Houses of the Future Leningrad: Pilot's House1924Drawing
Huis, man, ladder1930-1931Drawing
Huit dessins suprématistes[1917 / avant 1930]Drawing
Huizen op het plattelandca. 1906Other
Häuser und Kreuze (Golgatha)1930Drawing
I yu mane torca. 1915Drawing
Igra v adu1914Other
Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)1914Book
Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)1914Book
Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)1914Book
Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)1913–14, published 1914Book
II1913Drawing
Illustration for the book by Aleksei Kruchenykh and Velimir Khlebnikov "Igra v Adu»" (2nd edition, Moscow 1914)1914Print
Ils vont à l'église1928 - 1932Drawing
Into Wagons of the French, German Corpses Were Tightly Wrenched; Their English Brothers Carried Kegs Stuffed with Germans Who Lost Their Legsc. 1914Print
Izbornik stikhov s poslesloviem rechiaria. 1907–1914 gg. (A Selection of Poems with an Afterword by the Wordsmith: 1907–1914)1914Book
Jnitsa1913Drawing
K.Malevich, M.Matiushin, A.Kruchenykh, St.Petersburg, December 19131913Photograph
K.Malevich, M.Matiushin, A.Kruchenykh, St.Petersburg, December 19131913Photograph
K.Malevich, M.Matiushin, A.Kruchenykh, St.Petersburg, December 19131913Photograph
Kabarett1930Drawing
Kazimir Malevich lying seriously ill in his bed, shortly before he died1935Photograph
Kettle with lid1923Sculpture or object
Komposition mit einer Figurafter 1930Drawing
Konstruktionaround 1915Drawing
Kop van een boer, kruis, en landschap1928-1929Drawing
Kop van een boerenmeisje1912Painting
Kop van een boerenvrouw1913Drawing
Kopf1930Drawing
Kopfaround 1930Drawing
Kostüm für das Stück 'Maskenball'1913Drawing
Krestyanka (Boerenvrouw)1913Print
Krestyanka idet po vodu (Boerin haalt water)1913Print
Kubisme 25. Avtoportret (Kubisme 25. Zelfportret)1913Drawing
Kubisme 6. Wandklok1913Drawing
Kubisme 9. Molitva (Kubisme 9. Gebed)1913Drawing
Kubistische compositieca 1925Drawing
Kubistische figuur staand op de rug gezien1912-1913 (versie ca. 1925)Drawing
Kubofuturistische compositie met piano1913-1914Painting
Kubosuprematismus1916/1920Drawing
Kuppel des Volkshauses in Leningrad1931Drawing
Lamp - Musical InstrumentsΔεκαετία 1920Photograph
Lamp / Muziekinstrumenten1913Painting
Landscape1911Painting
Landscapec. 1906Painting
Landscape with a White House1928–1929 in Gasper-Hulvat 2012; Christie’s groups work with early-1930s landscapesPainting
Landscape with a Yellow House (Winter Landscape)c. 1906Painting
Landscape with Five Houses1928–1929Painting
Landscape with housec. 1905-1906Painting
Landschaftaround 1933/34Other
Landschaft (Der Winter) (Landscape (Winter))after 1927Painting
Lauf1917Drawing
Let's Grumble (Vozropshchem)1913Book
Liggende naakte vrouw met twee spelende kinderen1908Drawing
Lopende man met zaag onder de armca. 1928-1929Drawing
Maaiende vrouw1913Drawing
Maaiende vrouw1913Drawing
Maaiende vrouw1913Drawing
Maaiende vrouw1912-1913Drawing
Magnetic constructionDrawing
Magnetisch architectonische compositieca. 1920 (versie 1925-1926)Drawing
Magnetischer Suprematismus1916Drawing
Male Portrait1933–1934Painting
Malevich archief1913-1927Other
Malevich with his students (UNOVIS)Μάιος 1922Photograph
Man met zak1910-1911Painting
Manifesto handbill for the 0.10 exhibition1915Book
Mann in suprematistischer Landschaftum 1930 - 31Painting
Mann mit Pferd1933Drawing
Manuscript with drawings, Page 27, 1 July 19161916Other
Maternity. Woman in Birth1908Drawing
Moederschap / Overvloed1910Painting
Morning in the Village after Snowstorm1912Painting
Muziekinstrument1913Drawing
Muziekinstrumenten1913-1914Drawing
Mystic Suprematism (Black Cross on Red Oval)1920–22Painting
Mysticus1930Drawing
Mystiek suprematisme (rood kruis op zwarte cirkel)1920-1922Other
Naakt met geheven handen1908Drawing
Nachtwandeling1909-1910Drawing
Nu i tresk-zhe, nu i grom-zhe byl ot niemtsev podlie Lomzhi.1914/1918?Print
O Novykh Sistemakh V Iskusstve (On New Systems in Art)1919. (Prints executed 1910-1919).Book
O novykh sistemakh v iskusstve. Statika i skorost'1919Other
O novykh systemakh v iskusstve. Statika i skorost' ( On New Systems in Art: Statics and Speed )1919Book
O novykh systemakh v iskusstve: Statika i skorost’ (On New Systems in Art: Statics and Speed), Vitebsk1919Book
Ohne Titelaround 1904-1908Drawing
Ohne Titel1916Drawing
Ohne Titelaround 1931Drawing
Ohne Titel1916Drawing
Ohne Titelaround 1916Drawing
Ohne Titel (Untitled)1917–1930Drawing
Omslag van A. Kruchenykh en V. Khlebnikov, Igra v adu (Een spel in de hel)1913-1914Print
Omslag van Sezd Komitetov Derevenskoi Bednoty (Congres van Comités van Armoede op het Platteland)1918Print
Omslag van Troe (Het drietal)1913Print
Omslagontwerp voor Internatsional iskusstva (Internationale van de kunst)1918Print
Omslagontwerp voor N.N. Punin, Pervy tsikl lektsii (Eerste cyclus van lezingen)1920Drawing
Omslagontwerp voor Troe (Het drietal)1913Drawing
Ontwerp voor een architecton type 'Alfa'ca 1925-1926Drawing
Ontwerp voor een architecton type Alfa1925-1929Drawing
Ontwerp voor een monumentca. 1932-1933Drawing
Ontwerp voor een monumentca. 1932-1933Drawing
Ontwerp voor een monumentca. 1932-1933Drawing
Oogstende vrouwen/Het binnenhalen van de rogge II1912Other
Op de boulevard1910Painting
Opdoemende kruisvorm1917-1918Drawing
Ornements suprématistes1927 / 1978Sculpture or object
Ot kubizma i futurizma k suprematizmu. Novyi zhivopisnyi realizm (From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: New Painterly Realism)1916Book
Ot kubizma k suprematizmu. Novy zhivopisny realizm1916Other
Ot Sezanna do Suprematizma. Kritichesky ocherk1920Book
Ot Sezanna do Suprematizma. Kritichesky ocherk.1920Other
Paard en koets in beweging1913Drawing
Painterly Realism of a Boy with a Knapsack - Color Masses in the Fourth Dimension1915Painting
Painterly Realism of a Football Player—Color Masses in the 4th DimensionSummer/fall 1915Painting
Patriotic poster against the Germans1914Print
Patriotic Poster Against the Germans1914Print
Patriotic Poster Against the Germans1914Print
Patriotic Poster Against the GermansPrint
Patriotic propaganda postcard with verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky1914Book
Patriotic propaganda postcard with verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky1914Book
Patriotic propaganda postcard with verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky1914Book
Patriotic propaganda postcard with verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky1914Book
Patriotic propaganda postcard with verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky1914Book
Patriotic propaganda postcard with verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky1914Book
Patriotic propaganda postcard with verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky1914Book
Patriotic propaganda postcard with verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky1914Book
Patriotic propaganda postcard with verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky1914Book
Patriotic propaganda postcard with verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky1914Book
Patriotic propaganda postcard with verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky1914Book
Patriotic propaganda postcards with verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky1914Book
Paysanne[1912 / 1932]Drawing
Paysanne et deux enfants[1911 / avant 1930]Drawing
PeasantBetween 1930–1932Painting
Peasant bringing Water1912 (Thema), 1920er Jahre (Ausführung)Drawing
Peasant in a Field1928–1929Painting
Peasant WomanEarly 1930sPainting
Peasantsc. 1930Painting
Peasantscirca 1928 (NGA); 1928–1929 (Gasper-Hulvat)Painting
Perfected Portrait of Ivan Kliun1913Painting
Peruyi Tsikl Lektsii1920Book
Pervyi tsikl lektsii chitannykh na kratkosrochnykh kursakh dlia uchitelei risovaniia (First Series of Lectures, Given at a Short-Term Course for Teachers of Drawing)1920Book
Plan d'éléments d'architectone[après 1924]Drawing
Planetaire constructie (magnetische kruisvorm)1916-1917 (ontwikkeld 1920-1922, latere versie (voor 1927))Drawing
Planetary-Architectural Suprematism1919-1920Drawing
Plate (folio 17) from Vzorval' (Explodity)1913Book
Plate (folio 21) from Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)1913–14, published 1914Book
Plate (folio 22) from Vzorval' (Explodity)1913Book
Po utru iz Lvova vyshli1914Print
Pobeda nad solntsem. Opera (Victory over the Sun: An Opera)1913Book
Podoshel kolbasnik k Lodzi1914Drawing
Pokhoronnoe byuro (Begrafeniskantoor)1914-1915Drawing
PorosiataSaint Petersburg: 1913Book
Porosiata (Piglets)1913Book
Portrait of a Youth1933Painting
Portrait of M. V. Matyushin1913 in gallery-magazine object record; 1913–14 in Tretyakov education pagePainting
Portrait of the Artist’s Wife1933Painting
Portret M.V. Matyushina (Portret van M.V. Matyushin)1913Drawing
Portret stroitelya usovershenstvovan (Verbeterd portret van een bouwer)1913Drawing
Portret van de vader van de kunstenaarca 1902-1903Painting
Portret van een jonge vrouw (waarschijnlijk Sofia Rafalovitch)1908-1909Drawing
Portret van een man (Aleksei Morgunov?)1912Other
Portret van M.V. Matyushin1913Drawing
Prayer1913Drawing
Prayer1913Print
PrayerStudy for a fresco painting. 1907Painting
Prayer (plate, folio 19) from Vzorval' (Explodity)1913–14, published 1914Book
Primitiv (Schuhmacher)1910Drawing
Prografachnik1916Drawing
Projekt einer kosmischen Anlagearound 1917Drawing
Quadrat und Oval1915/1916Drawing
Quadrat und Viereck1914-1915Drawing
Red Cavalryc. 1932Painting
Red House1932Painting
Red SquareUndatedDrawing
Red Square. Painterly Realism of a Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions1915Painting
Reicher Mannaround 1910Drawing
Relaxing (Society in Top Hats)1908Drawing
Reservist of the First Divisionfall-winter 1914Painting
Roar!: Gauntlets of 1908-1914 (Riav!: Perchatki 1908-1914)1914Book
Rotes Quadrat auf Schwarzaround 1922Other
Samovar1913Painting
Schema I: Construction of Axes of a Model; Schema II: Cubist Structure (Construction); Schema III: Cubist Constructed Drawing from On New Systems in Art (O Novykh Sistemakh Visk Usstve)1919Print
Schets vooor de opera Voyna (Oorlog): Topor molodets ne brekhal (de jongeman Topor heeft niet gelogen)1918Drawing
Schets voor de opera Voyna (Oorlog): Bas, day stakan (Bas, geef me een glas)1918Drawing
Schets voor de opera Voyna (Oorlog): gekruisigde tegen een lichte achtergrond1918Drawing
Schets voor de opera Voyna (Oorlog): gekruisigde tegen een zwarte achtergrond1918Drawing
Schets voor de opera Voyna (Oorlog): interieur met figuur en hangend kruisbeeld1918Drawing
Schets voor de opera Voyna (Oorlog): Odin tikho (een stille)1918Drawing
Schets voor een architectonische structuur1920-1921 (versie 1923-1924)Drawing
SchetsboekomslagDrawing
Schneider, Allogismus, Aushangaround 1915Drawing
Schnitter1909-1910Drawing
Schnitterinnen1909-1910Drawing
Schnitterinnen (Reapers)1909–1910Drawing
Schwarzes Viereck1914-1915Drawing
Scène uit Anathema1909-1910Print
Segodnyashnye sooruzheniya1920 (versie 1923-1924)Drawing
Segodnyashnye sooruzheniya1923-1924 / 2010Other
Selected Verse, 1907–1914 (Izbornik stikhov, 1907-1914)1915Book
Self-PortraitStudy for a fresco painting. 1907Painting
Self-Portrait1910–1911Drawing
Self-Portrait (Artist)1933Painting
Shel avstriec v Radzivily1914Print
Sieg über die Sonne 1913-19731973Print
Sieg über die Sonne 1913-19731973 / 2010Other
Simultaneous Death in an Airplane and at the Railway(1913)Print
Simultaneous Death of a Man in an Airplane and on the Railroad (plate, folio 15) from Vzorval' (Explodity)1913–14, published 1914Book
Sketch for "Vertical Suprematist Construction»"UndatedDrawing
Sketch for a Stage Curtain for the Opera Victory over the Sun1928Drawing
Sketch for Agit-Trainπερ. 1918Drawing
Slovo Kak Takavoe (The Word as Such)1913Book
Slovo kak takovoe (The Word as Such)1913Book
Smert cheloveka odnovremmeno na aeroplane i zhel. doroge (De gelijktijdige dood van een man in een vliegtuig en op de spoorlijn)1913Print
Sportsmen1928–1932Painting
Square and Cone1915Drawing
Staande boer1928-1929Drawing
Staande boer met emmer1930-1932Drawing
Staande boer met zeis bij het hooien1928-1929Drawing
Staande duivel1913-1914Print
Staande figuur1927Drawing
Staande mannenfiguur1930-1931Drawing
Staande vrouw en man Kop en schouders Vijf figuren met twee suprematistische elementen1918 (latere versie)Drawing
Staande vrouw met de armen over elkaarca 1930Drawing
Standing Figure1913Drawing
Standing Womancirca 1930Drawing
Stikhi V. Maiakovskogo. Vypyt (The Poetry of V. Mayakovsky. [Vypyt])1914Book
Still Lifec. 1910Drawing
Stroyuschiysya dom [House under construction]1915–16 (museum); reverse inscription 1914 distinguished from execution datePainting
Studie für das Gemälde 'Die Rote Kavallerie'1930Drawing
Studie nach Picasso. Entwurf für das Bauhausbuch 'Die Gegenstandslose Welt'1926/1927Drawing
Studie nach Picasso. Entwurf für das Bauhausbuch 'Die Gegenstandslose Welt'1926/1927Drawing
Study for the rear curtain for Victory over the Sun1913Drawing
Study for the rear curtain for Victory over the Sun1913Drawing
Summer Landscape (Zomerlandschap)circa 1929Painting
Suprematicheskoe postroenie N 118 (Suprematistische constructie nr. 118)1917-1918 (versie 1920)Drawing
Suprematisch kruis (klein kruis in zwart over rood op wit)1920-1927Other
Suprematism1915Drawing
Suprematism1915Painting
Suprematism1915–1916Painting
Suprematism (Supremus No. 56)1915-16Painting
Suprematism (Supremus No. 58)1916Painting
Suprematism, 18th Construction1915 (artist's reverse inscription reads 1914)Painting
Suprematisme1917-1918Drawing
Suprematisme van de geest1919Other
Suprematisme. Oplossende constructie, vorm 781918 (latere versie (1927))Drawing
Suprematisme: Compositie 5 c1915-1917Drawing
Suprematisme: drie overlappende rechthoeken1916-1917 (latere versie)Drawing
Suprematisme: drie snijdende vlakken, vervagend1917-1918Drawing
Suprematisme: elementen in wisselwerking, vervagend1917-1918Drawing
Suprematisme: formatie van rechthoeken1916 (latere versie)Drawing
Suprematisme: formatie van rechthoeken en vierkanten van verschillende grootte1916 (latere versie)Drawing
Suprematisme: formatie van rechthoeken van verschillende grootte1916 (latere versie)Drawing
Suprematisme: gevoelens van angst1917-1919Drawing
Suprematisme: in tweeën1917-1919Drawing
Suprematisme: krommingen en bogen1917-1918Drawing
Suprematisme: magnetische rechthoeken in stervorm Vier kaderlijnen1917-1919Drawing
Suprematisme: magnetische staven1917Drawing
Suprematisme: ovaal en rechthoek Twee staande vrouwen in een landschap Man met hoed (zogenaamd portret van Larionov?) Boer Vier figuren1916-1917 (latere versie)Drawing
Suprematisme: Ovaal, boog en rechthoeken1917Drawing
Suprematisme: twee snijdende vlakken, vervagend1917-1918Drawing
Suprematisme: twee snijdende vlakken, vervagend Suprematisme: drie snijdende vlakken, vervagend1917-1918Drawing
Suprematisme: zwart vierkant en witte rechthoek met rode strepen1917-1919Drawing
Suprematismus1912-1913Drawing
Suprematist Composition1915Drawing
Suprematist compositionc. 1916Drawing
Suprematist Composition1916Photograph
Suprematist Composition1916Painting
Suprematist Composition with Plane in Projection1915Painting
Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying1915 (dated on reverse 1914)Painting
Suprematist Composition: White on White1918Painting
Suprematist Diagonal Construction 791917Drawing
Suprematist Drawing(c. 1916-17)Drawing
Suprematist Drawing(c. 1916-17)Drawing
Suprematist Element: Circle(1923)Drawing
Suprematist Elements: Squares1923Drawing
Suprematist interior decoration1920-1921Drawing
Suprematist Painting1916-17Painting
Suprematistisch schilderij (met zwart trapezium en rood vierkant)1915Other
Suprematistische compositie1915 (versie 1920-1927)Drawing
Suprematistische compositie (met acht rode rechthoeken)1915Painting
Suprematistische compositie (met blauwe driehoek en zwarte rechthoek)1915Painting
Suprematistische compositie (met gele, oranje en groene rechthoek)1915-1916Other
Suprematistische Elemente im Raum1914-1915Drawing
Suprematistische Komposition1915-1916Drawing
Suprematistische Komposition1915/1916Drawing
Suprematistische Komposition (Suprematist Composition)1915Painting
Suprematistische schets1915-1920Drawing
Suprematistische Zeichnung (Plan eines Erdflugplatzes)1927Drawing
Suprematistisches Architektonaround 1926Sculpture or object
Suprematizm. 34 risunka1920Print
Suprematizm. 34 risunka (Suprematism: 34 Drawings)1920Book
Supremus No. 181916–1917Drawing
Supremus nr 511916 (versie 1920-1927)Drawing
Supremus Nr. 381916Other
Supremus nr. 501915Other
Supremus nr. 581916 (versie begin jaren 1920)Drawing
Sushchestvuet énergiya v sushchestve kotca. 1923Other
Sämann1910/1912Drawing
Tenhemelopneming van een heilige1907-1908Drawing
The Triumph of Heaven1907Painting
The UNOVIS way (Put' Unovisa)Ιανουάριος 1921Print
The Word As Such (Slovo kak takovoe)1913Book
Third State of Beingdesigned in 1915, made in the 1920sDrawing
Three Female FiguresEarly 1930sPainting
Threesome (Troe)1913Book
Thèmes pour des monuments architecturaux dans des parcs et sur des places1927 / 1978Sculpture or object
Tizianaround 1930Drawing
Tochil’schik Printsip Mel’kaniia (The Knife Grinder or Principle of Glittering)1912–13Painting
Toekomstige planits voor Leningrad. Het huis van de vliegenier1924Drawing
Toekomstige planits, huizen voor aardbewoners1920-1921 (versie 1923-1924)Drawing
Toneelontwerp voor akte 1, scène 4 van Overwinning op de zon1913Drawing
Toneelontwerp voor Overwinning op de zon1913 (versie 1915)Drawing
Torse féminin[1908 / avant 1930]Drawing
Torso (Figure with a Pink Face)1928–1929Painting
Torso (Prototype of a New Image)1928–1929Painting
Torso in a Yellow Shirt (Complicated Premonition)c. 1932Painting
Transrationele compositie: geluiden1913Drawing
Treescirca 1904Painting
Triple PortraitStudy for Socialist City (unexecuted). 1933Painting
Troe (The Three)1913Book
Troe (The Three)1913Book
Trois croixvers 1930 - 1932Drawing
Trois dessins : tête de femme, buste et visage[1908 / avant 1930]Drawing
Troye1913Other
Tvorchestvo ne mozhet byt' svobodnoca. 1923Other
Tvorchestvo ne mozhet byt' svobodnoca. 1923Other
Twee duivels die een vrouw doormidden zagen1913-1914Print
Twee mannen in beweging1917-1918 of ca. 1930Drawing
Twee naakte vrouwen peren plukkend1909Painting
Twee vrouwen en een man tegen een lage horizon1930Drawing
Two figures with a stretcherca. 1930-1931Drawing
Two Male FiguresEarly 1930sPainting
Tête noirevers 1930Drawing
Universal Landscape1913Print
UNOVIS Questionnaire1920Print
Untitled1920Drawing
Untitledc. 1920Print
UntitledαχρονολόγητοPrint
UntitledUndatedDrawing
UntitledUndatedDrawing
Untitled1913?Drawing
Untitled (Suprematist Composition)circa 1919–1926Drawing
Untitled (Suprematist Composition)circa 1919–1926Drawing
Untitled (Suprematist Cross)1920, printed 1973Print
Untitled, Illustration for the book by Aleksei Kruchenykh and Velimir Khlebnikov "Igra v Adu»" (2nd edition, Moscow 1914)1913Print
Verdwijnend geel vlak1917-1918Painting
Verdwijnende constructie (diagonale balk met drie bogen in wit)ca. 1917Other
Verdwijnende witte vlakken1917-1918Other
Verklarende kaarten over de theorie van het additionele of toegevoegde element in de schilderkunst1927Drawing
Verticale constructie, suprematisme1919-1920 (versie 1920-1925)Drawing
Vier figuren in een landschapca. 1928-1930Drawing
Vijf geketende figuren op de rug gezien, geflankeerd door twee bewakers1910-1911Drawing
Vil'gel'mova Karusel' (Wilhelm's Carousel)1914Print
Vloerboeners1911Drawing
Voorstudie voor het omslag van het programma van het Congres van Comités van Armoede op het Platteland1918Drawing
Voorstudie voor het omslag van het programma van het Congres van Comités van Armoede op het Platteland1918Drawing
Voorstudie voor het omslag van Sezd Komitetov Derevenskoi Bednoty (Congres van Comités van Armoede op het Platteland)1918Drawing
Voorstudie voor het omslag van Sezd Komitetov Derevenskoi Bednoty (Congres van Comités van Armoede op het Platteland)1918Drawing
Voyna (Oorlog)1914Drawing
Vozropshchem (Let's Grumble)1913Book
Vrouw bij tramhalte1913-1914Other
Vrouw in lange jurk met kind1930Drawing
Vrouw met de armen over elkaar1931-1932Drawing
Vrouw met krant op schoot1904Other
Vrouw omgeven door vruchten1909Painting
Vrouwelijke figuur met uitgespreide armen1930?Drawing
Vrouwenfiguur1909Drawing
Vrouwenfiguur met gespreide armen1930-1931Drawing
Vrouwenfiguur, vis, cirkel, kruisca. 1928-1930Drawing
Vsemirny peyzazh (Universeel landschap)1913Drawing
Vzorval1913Book
Vzorval' (Explodity)1913Book
Vzorval' (Explodity)1913Book
Vzorval' (Explodity)1913–14, published 1914Book
Wachthuisje, drie kruisenca 1930-1931Drawing
What a Rattle1914Print
Wilhelm Carousel1914Print
Windmillsca. 1909-1910Painting
Wit suprematistisch kruis1920-1921Painting
Woman Reaper (front cover) from Slovo Kak Takavoe (The Word as Such)1913Book
Woman with Pails: Dynamic Arrangement1912-13 (dated on reverse 1912)Painting
Woman Worker1933Painting
Women BathersCirca 1930Painting
Women Reapers (The Reapers)1928–1929; 1905 inscription separately documented by Gasper-Hulvat 2012Painting
Wraparound cover for the program S'ezd komitetov derevenskoi bednoty (Congress of Committees of Peasant Poverty)1918Book
Wäscherin1909-1910Drawing
Ya apostol novykh ponyaty b iskusstve (Ik, de apostel van nieuwe begrippen in de kunst1916Drawing
Zelfportret in twee dimensies1915Painting
Zeta1923 / 1978Sculpture or object
Zhnitsa (Maaiende vrouw)1913Drawing
Zittend naakt op de rug gezien1907-1908Drawing
Zwei Schwesternaround 1904-1906Drawing
«Живо заняли мы Галич...».1914Print
«Ну и треск же, ну и гром же...»1914Print
«Подошел колбасник к Лодзи...»1914Print
Весна – цветущий сад1928–1929Painting
Вильгельмова карусель1914Print
Голова крестьянинаКонец 1920-хDrawing
Девочка под деревом. Этюд1932–1933Painting
Девушка с гребнем в волосах1932–1933Painting
Девушка с красным древком1932–1933Painting
Деревня. Три рисунка1928-1929Drawing
Динамический супрематизм1920Drawing
Динамический супрематизм. Аэроплан летит1920Print
Доктор Мабузо. Образец киноплаката1925–1926Painting
Ескіз розпису конференц-залу ВУАН в Києві (Sketch for the painting of the conference hall of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kyiv)1930Drawing
Женщина с граблями1930-1931Painting
Композиция с двумя прямоугольниками1920Drawing
Крестьянка1928-1929Drawing
Кубофутуризм. Динамическое ощущение натурщика. Авторская реплика композиций 1911 и 1919 годаВторая половина 1920-хDrawing
Кубофутуристический пейзаж1913Drawing
Лубок. «Вильгельмова карусель»1914Print
Лубок. «Глядь, поглядь, уж близко Висла»1914Print
Лубок. «Подошел колбасник к Лодзи»1914Print
Лубок. «Шел австриец в Радзивиллы»1914Print
На сенокосе1928-1929Painting
Пейзаж под Киевом1930Painting
Плащаница1908Drawing
Портрет А.А. ЛепорскойОколо 1933Painting
Портрет В.А. Павлова1933Painting
Портрет жены1934Painting
Портрет Н. Н. Пунина1933Painting
Портрет ударника (Краснознаменец Жарновский)1932Painting
Почтовая карточка «По утру из Львова вышли...»1914Print
Почтовая карточка. «Ах ты, милый город Люблин...»1914Print
Почтовая карточка. «Выезжали мы за Млаву...»1914Print
Почтовая карточка. «Выезжали мы из Ковны...»1914Print
Почтовая карточка. «Глядь, по глядь, уж близко Висла...»1914Print
Почтовая карточка. «Как заехали за Лык..»1914Print
Почтовая карточка. «Не ходи австриец плутом...»1914Print
Почтовая карточка. «Ну и треск, да ну и гром же...»1914Print
Почтовая карточка. «Скоро, скоро будем в Краков...»1914Print
Почтовая карточка. «Шел австриец в Радзивилы...»1914Print
Почтовые карточки1914Print
Принцип росписи стены1919Drawing
Сестры1930Painting
Смерть конного генерала1914Drawing
Станция без остановки. Кунцево1913-1914Painting
Супрематизм1920Drawing
Супрематизм1919Drawing
Супрематизм. Композиция с кругом1917-1918Drawing
Супрематическая композиция1917-1918Drawing
Три супрематических композицииНачало 1920-хDrawing
Туалетная шкатулка1913-1914Painting
Чашка (получашка)1923Sculpture or object
Чашка (получашка) «Супрематизм»1923Sculpture or object
Черный квадрат1929Painting
Черный квадрат (Black Square)1913 / circa 1932 in formal field; circa 1930–32 in museum essayPainting
Черный супрематический квадрат1915Painting
‘aF’ forma obema (‘aF’ vorm van volume)1915, versie 1924 of 1926Drawing

Frequently asked questions

How many paintings did Malevich make?

The 85 cards on this site are not a count of his paintings. The Stedelijk's Khardzhiev subcollection alone contains six Malevich paintings among 173 works, and other institutions hold further objects. A defensible total requires version and medium reconciliation across collections and catalogues. [1]

Which Black Square is the original?

The first surviving Tretyakov Black Square is dated 1915 and has inventory 11925. The Tretyakov also records a 1929 version, which must be described as a separate object. [2], [3]

Why is Red Cavalry signed or dated 1918 if the museum dates it about 1932?

The Russian Museum distinguishes the canvas's inscription from its assigned date. The discrepancy is part of the documented work history and should appear in descriptions of the particular painting. [24]

Did Malevich stop painting after White on White?

No. MoMA dates White on White to 1918, while museum records identify later paintings including Sportsmen, Red Cavalry and Girl with a Comb in Her Hair. The relationship between phases is more complicated than a single endpoint. [23], [24], [25], [27]

Are all works called Suprematist Composition the same painting?

No. That is a broad title used for more than one object. The 1916 S-97 Suprematist Composition discussed here is identified by its object history and current Art Institute collection; MoMA's 1915 Airplane Flying has a different title, date and accession. [18], [20]

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References

  1. Stedelijk Museum, Malevich/Khardzhiev collection report: collection scope; the site's 85 cards are not an oeuvre census. View source.
  2. State Tretyakov Gallery, first Black Square, inv. 11925: exact 1915 work. View source.
  3. State Tretyakov Gallery, 1929 Black Square: separate version. View source.
  4. State Russian Museum, Landscape, Ж-9452: early painting. View source.
  5. State Russian Museum, Landscape with a Yellow House, Ж-9411: early painting. View source.
  6. Stedelijk Museum, Taking in the Rye, A 7678: version II and owner date. View source.
  7. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Morning in the Village after Snowstorm, 52.1327: exact painting. View source.
  8. MoMA, Woman with Pails: Dynamic Arrangement, 815.1935: date, reverse inscription, medium and scale. View source.
  9. Yale University Art Gallery, The Knife Grinder, 1941.553: identified canvas and exhibition record. View source.
  10. Stedelijk Museum, The Woodcutter (recto)/ Peasant Women at Church (verso), A 7679: two painted sides. View source.
  11. Stedelijk Museum, An Englishman in Moscow, A 7656: painting record. View source.
  12. Stedelijk Museum, 2017 discovery of the drawing related to An Englishman in Moscow: documented comparison. View source.
  13. State Russian Museum, Composition with the Mona Lisa, ЖС-440: painting and collection record. View source.
  14. Centre Pompidou, Black Cross, AM 1980-1: 1915 painting, distinct from later version. View source.
  15. State Russian Museum, Black Circle, Ж-9472: museum-dated circa-1923 painting. View source.
  16. State Russian Museum, Red Square, Жб-1643: exact 1915 painting. View source.
  17. Ann Hoenigswald, “Kazimir Malevich’s Paintings: Surface and Intended Appearance,” National Gallery of Art, 1996/97: conservation findings on particular canvases. View source.
  18. MoMA, Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying, 248.1935: exact 1915 painting and reverse date. View source.
  19. State Tretyakov Gallery, 1920 airplane lithograph, ГРС-3045: separate printed work. View source.
  20. Art Institute of Chicago, Suprematist Composition, 1969.678: 1916 S-97 canvas; Christie's provenance record. View source.
  21. Art Institute of Chicago, Painterly Realism of a Football Player, 2011.1; Smithsonian technical study: exact painting and conservation evidence. View source.
  22. MoMA, Painterly Realism of a Boy with a Knapsack, 816.1935: distinct two-form painting. View source.
  23. MoMA, Suprematist Composition: White on White, 817.1935: 1918 painting. View source.
  24. State Russian Museum, Red Cavalry, Ж-9435: assigned date and inscription. View source.
  25. State Russian Museum, Sportsmen, Ж-9439: late figures. View source.
  26. State Russian Museum, Head of a Peasant, Ж-9488: distinguished from same-title Ж-9473. View source.
  27. State Tretyakov Gallery, Girl with a Comb in Her Hair, Инв.20843: 1932–33 portrait. View source.
  28. Matthew Drutt, ed., Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism (Guggenheim, 2003), p. 164; Krasnodar museum-associated ARTEFACT record; Irina Vakar on the 1917 dating question: exact square Krasnodar work, catalogue metadata and chronology caveat. View source.
  29. Splash image: Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition, 1916 S-97, Art Institute of Chicago. Owner-supplied high-resolution image, linked to the exact painting article below.