Black Circle
Kazimir Malevich · 1924
The story
Black Circle (or motive 1915) is a 1924 oil-on-canvas painting by the Russian avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich, founder of the Suprematism movement. From the mid-1910s, Malevich abandoned any trace of figurature or representation from his paintings in favour of pure abstraction.
- Artist
- Kazimir Malevich
- Date
- 1924
- Collection
- Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Movement
- Suprematism
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
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