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Suprematist Composition

1924

Russian, 1902 - 1973

Gouache on paper

12 1/2 × 29 3/4in. (31.8 × 75.6cm)

Gift of Gladys and Sam Rubinstein

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Provenance: Polonski Collection, Paris, France; private collection, Dallas, Texas; [Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1994]

Not currently on view

Resources

Published ReferencesVasily Rakitin, “Anna Kagan,” biographical entry in the Encyclopedia of Russian Avant-Garde. Vasily Rakitin and Andrei Sarabianov, eds. Moscow: RA, 2013, vol. 1, p. 400. [published in Russian]
Alexandra Shatskikh, Vitebsk: The Life of Art. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, pp. 90, 131, 211-212
Konstantin Akinsha, “The Faking of the Russian Avant-garde” Artnews (February 1996 and 2009) http://www.artnews.com/2009/07/01/the-faking-of-the-russian-avant-garde/
Russische Avantgarde 1910-1930. Sammlung Ludwig, Köln, München: Prestel-Verlag, 1985, pp.62-3

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