Working under tsarist as well as communist rulers, and despite factional disputes and the desperate privation that he and his family had to endure, Malevich created a body of brilliantly colouristic work, from his early Symbolist self-portraits, experimental city paintings and monumental peasant works of the 1900s to the astonishing abstractions of the 1910s and early 1920s and, in later years, a style with echoes of Renaissance artists.

EZIMIR MALEVICH by Charlotte Douglas

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NOTES TO THE READER

1.LANDSCAPE WITH YELLOW HOUSE Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

2.SELF-PORTRAIT Tretiakov Galleg, Moscow

3.ARGENTINE POLKA Formerh collection Joachim Jean Aberbach, Sands Point, New York

4.MAN WITH A SACK Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

5.ON THE BOULEVARD Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

6.CHIROPODIST AT THE BATHS Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 

7.PEASANT WOMAN WITH BUCKETS AND CHILD Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

8.THE MOWER Art Museum, Nizhni Novgorod

9.THE WOODCUTTER Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

10.MORNING AFTER A STORM IN THE COUNTRY Solomon R. Guggenbeim Museum, New York

11.WOMAN WITH WATER PAILS: DYNAMIC ARRANGEMENT The Museum of Modern Art, New York

12.FINISHED PORTRAIT OF IVAN KLIUN Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

13.THE GRINDER: PRINCIPLE OF FLICKERING (THE KNIFE GRINDER/THE SCISSORS GRINDER) Yale University Art (;allen., New Haven

14.SAMOVAR The Museum oflModern Art, New York

15.ATHLETE (SPORTSMAN) Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

16.LAMP (MUSICAL INSTRUMENT) Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

17.LADY AT A TROLLEY STOP (LADY IN A TROLLEY) Stedeliik Museum, Amsterdam

18.ENGLISHMAN IN MOSCOW Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

19.AIRPLANE FLYING (SUPREMATIST COMPOSITION) The Museum of Modern Art, New York

20.UNTITLED (SUPREMATIST PAINTING) Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

21.UNTITLED (SUPREMATISM) Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

22.UNTITLED (SUPREMATIST COMPOSITION) Peggy Guggenheim Foundation, Venice

23.SU'PREMUS NO. 56 Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

24.SUPREMUS NO. 57 Tate Gallery, London

25.SUPREMATIST COMPOSITION The Museum of Modern Art, New York

26.UNTITLED (SUPREMATIST PAINTING) Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

27.UNTITLED (SUPREMATIST PAINTING) Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

28.SUPREMATIST COMPOSITION: WHITE ON WHITE The Museum of Modern Art, New York

29.TO THE HARVEST (MARFA AND VANKA) Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

30.HAYMAKING Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow

31.HEAD OF A PEASANT Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

32.PEASANTS Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

33.UNTITLED (MAN AND HORSE) Mus~e National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

34.UNTITLED (MAN RUNNING) Mus~e National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

35.THE RED HOUSE Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

36.COMPLEX PREMONITION (HALF FIGURE IN A YELLOW SHIRT) Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

37.THE ATHLETES (SPORTSMEN) Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

38.UNEMPLOYED GIRL Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

39.PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S WIFE, NATALIA ANDREEVNA MANCHENKO Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

40.THE ARTIST (SELF-PORTRAIT) Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

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