Samovar

Kazimir Malevich · 1913

You're looking at Samovar, painted by Kazimir Malevich in nineteen thirteen, shortly before he abandoned the object altogether for Suprematism. The samovar is already close to being nothing but a set of interlocking planes.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 35 x 24 1/2" (88.5 x 62.2 cm) · Credit The Riklis Collection of McCrory Corporation

Hanging beside it in Gallery 503: Bridge, Landscape

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Painterly Architectonic, Some, Some, Composition, Some, Composition

More by Kazimir Malevich here: Woman with Pails: Dynamic Arrangement, Suprematist Composition: White on White, Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying, Painterly Realism of a Boy with a Knapsack - Color Masses in the Fourth Dimension, Suprematist Painting