Tempera/Panel from Kasimir Sevrinovitch MALEVICH (1878-1935) Казимир Северинович Малевич
Size 68.50 x 53 cm. (26.97 x 20.86 in.)The overall size including the frame:
80. 50 X 65 cm. (31.69 x 25.59 in.)
Signature. Lower right
Collections Malevich's works are held in several major art museums, including the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, and in New York, the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum. The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam owns 24 Malevich paintings, more than any other museum outside of Russia. Another major collection of Malevich works is held by the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki. Art market Black Square, the fourth version of his magnum opus painted in the 1920s, was discovered in 1993 in Samara and purchased by Inkombank for US$250,000. In April 2002 the painting was auctioned for an equivalent of US$1 million. The purchase was financed by the Russian philanthropist Vladimir Potanin, who donated funds to the Russian Ministry of Culture, and ultimately, to the State Hermitage Museum collection.According to the Hermitage website, this was the largest private contribution to state art museums since the October Revolution. On 3 November 2008, a work by Malevich entitled Suprematist Composition from 1916 set the world record for any Russian work of art and any work sold at auction for that year, selling at Sotheby's in New York City for just over US$60 million (surpassing his previous record of US$17 million set in 2000).