Kazimir Malevitch. Suprematist Composition

Phillips Auction catalogue. May 11 2000

Hardcover with dust jacket. 54pp

This book covers details of just this one painting of Malevitch. It contains essays, chronology, bibliography, provenance and documentary photographs of ’Suprematist composition’ which then sold for 17 million dollars in 2000 by Auction House Philips.

Thorough details about this work in a wonderfully ‘constructivist’ and elaborate book design.

The linen cover with an embossed impression of the painting.

Some background in articles below as to this and other works/paintings by Malevitch and others, which eventually and fairly recently made their way back to the Malevitch family.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/may/11/artsfeatures2

https://observer.com/2000/05/malevich-17-million-sale-finally-buries-stalinism/