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MALEVICH, Kazimir

Lot 164
10.03.2022 10:30UTC +01:00
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Starting price
€ 60 000
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Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 718271
Lot 164 | MALEVICH, Kazimir
Estimate value
€ 60 000 – 80 000
MALEVICH, Kazimir

Suprematizm 34 Risunka. (Suprématisme, 34 dessins).

MALEVICH, Kazimir

Suprematizm 34 Risunka. (Suprématisme, 34 dessins).

Vitebsk, Unovis - ateliers d'impression d'art de Vitebsk (probablement sous la direction d'El Lissitzky), 1920



ENSEMBLE COMPLET DES 34 LITHOGRAPHIES



"LA BIBLE DU SUPRÉMATISME"



ÉDITION ORIGINALE



In-8 (220 x 183 mm)

TIRAGE : Rowell annonce entre 11 et 14 exemplaires connus hors de Russie d'après Rowell

ILLUSTRATIONS : 34 lithographies, imprimées recto-verso, dont une à double page, sur papier vélin crème, en excellente condition La couverture par El Lissitzky et les 4 pages de texte lithographié sont ici en fac-similé moderne

Emboitage de maroquin crème signé Mercher.

RÉFÉRENCES : Rowell, pp. 146-150, n°307 ; Getty, Russian Modernism, cat. 480



"La phrase énigmatique du Suprématisme, 34 dessins : 'Par le pinceau, il n'est pas possible d'atteindre ce que l'on peut obtenir par la plume. Le pinceau est fouillis et ne peut pas atteindre les sinuosités du cerveau, la plume est plus aiguë' - annonce non seulement que l'ère de la peinture de chevalet est terminée, que l'art doit se manifester autrement (dans l'architecture par exemple), mais aussi que Malevich se tourne vers 'les régions de la pensée', vers la spéculation" (Malevitch, De Cézanne au Suprématisme, avant-propos, p. 7).



La réalisation de l'ouvrage a été supervisée par El Lissitzky, qui dirigeait l'imprimerie à Vitebsk. Comme souvent, il est difficile d'estimer l'étendue du tirage originel, mais très peu d'exemplaires semblent avoir survécu : la réaction du régime soviétique envers les oeuvres subversives de Malevitch, et les violents combats entre l'Armée rouge et les soldats allemends ayant fait rage à Vitebsk en 1941 ont probablement conduit à la destruction d'une large part du tirage.



The 'Bible of Suprematism'. Complete set of the 34 original lithographs, with the wrappers and the 4 pages of text in facsimile. Rowell mentions between 11 and 14 copies known outside of the former USSR.

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