Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying

Kazimir Malevich · 1915 (dated on reverse 1914)

This one's called Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying — a painting by Malevich, nineteen fifteen (dated on reverse nineteen fourteen). Malevich was part of the Suprematism movement. The piece is oil on canvas, about 58 by 48 centimeters.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 22 7/8 x 19" (58.1 x 48.3 cm) · Credit 1935 Acquisition confirmed in 1999 by agreement with the Estate of Kazimir Malevich and made possible with funds from the Mrs. John Hay Whitney Bequest (by exchange)

Hanging beside it in Gallery 507: Neoconcrete Relief, Some

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Vertical and Diagonal Planes, Some, Composition with Color Planes 5, Composition, Composition C, Composition with Red, Blue, Black, Yellow, and Gray

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