Woman with Pails: Dynamic Arrangement

Kazimir Malevich · 1912-13 (dated on reverse 1912)

You're looking at Woman with Pails, painted by Malevich around nineteen twelve. His peasant subjects are built from metallic cones and cylinders — a Russian answer to Cubism that keeps the figure monumental rather than dissolving it.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 31 5/8 x 31 5/8" (80.3 x 80.3 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 503: The Three Windows, the Tower and the Wheel, Objects from a Dyer's Shop

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Painterly Architectonic, Seduction, Uphe, Jar, Bottle and Glass, Poetic Shelter, Some

More by Kazimir Malevich here: Samovar, 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