Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935), Suprematism

Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935), Suprematism

Oil on canvas

1916/17

Signed and titled (on the reverse).

80 x 49.4 cm

Provenance: Private collection Cologne, Germany.
Private collection, Israel.
According to the letter of authenticity, the painting "

Literature: Railing, Patricia, Malevich Paints - The Seeing Eye, Artists-Bookworks, 2013, p. 240.
Excerpt from the above:
"There are number of canvases of 1916 and 1917 in which Malevich explored such effects of luminosity as the appear in the paintings that originate in color masses seen in the eye's visual field when stimulated by the sun. Supermatism (6|43), as it is titled on the back of the canvas is a fine example of this....This painting is a study in luminosities between very bright and very dark....The large dark oval plane would suggest the sun, the afterimage of which always turns black in the over-stimulated eye. its elliptical shape is caused by the head shifting downwards and the eye carrying with it an afterimage. The long vertically-inclined bar is linked to the smaller bars and planes in the bottom part of the composition, afterimages in the eye's visual field alternating between light and dark, red and blue, as the light changes. The high luminosity of the ground shifts between whitish pink to the soft yellows in a more feeble light."

Notes: According to the literature two scientific reports exist. The report by Laurette Thomas from 2007 is available upon request.
Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity 2007 by Patricia Railing. See link here.

From the certificate: Malevich showed 60 canvas in the "Moscow Kanve of Diamonds" in 1916, all grouped under one title "Supermatism of Painting". Only 4 of these 60 paintings have been identified, 3 of them from the 1915 exhibition "Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings".
So if Malevich shoed other paintings from 1915, even all of them, then there would be at least 20 new paintings of 1916, However, based on his usual practice of exhibiting all new work unless specified in the catalogue, and because the exhibition was dominated by the Supremus Society of Artists which would suggest that Malevich's work, too, fell somethin like at least 50 new paintings. At present there are about 30 known paintings dated 1916.
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