Gathering Buckwheat

Lot 123
15.10.2020 14:00UTC +00:00
Classic
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£ 5 000
AuctioneerMacDougall Arts Ltd.
Lieu de l'événementRoyaume-Uni, London
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ID 412614
Lot 123 | Gathering Buckwheat
Valeur estimée
£ 5 000 – 7 000
Pencil and watercolour on paper, 24.5 by 32 cm.Provenance: Collection of S. Kliunkova-Soloveichik.
Private collection, USA.
Private collection, Europe.

The work bears a stamp with authentication from S. Kliunkova-Soloveichik, the artist’s granddaughter, on the reverse.
Authenticity of the work has been confirmed by the expert O. Glebova.

Literature: S. Kliunkova-Soloveichik, Ivan Vasilievich Kliun, New York, IVK Art, 1993, p. 322, illustrated and listed.

Works of the 1930s, included in the collection, reflect the return to figurative art and realism, typical for nearly all of the Russian Avant-Garde artists who were still alive in the late 1920s. These works also reveal Kliun’s interest in rural landscapes and genres. Particularly noteworthy here are the Gathering Buckwheat sketches from nature, one of which bears the inscription “K. Malevich reaping” on the back.

Interestingly enough, these compositions were produced alongside Malevich’s “second peasant series”. While in Malevich’s post-Suprematist work, Kliun’s face is entirely transformed from the image of a “builder” into a de-individualised depiction of a “peasant’s head” and a “reaper”, exhibiting merely the basic features, Kliun, conversely, creates a completely realistic portrait drawing of Malevich the reaper with the very same attribute, a scythe, in his hand. Alongside similar “collective farm scenes”, Kliun also makes several Cubist-style sketches of the figures of reapers, reverting once more to the problem of the architectonic structure of the human figure. But these drawings, now in the Costakis Collection, only briefly hark back to his old interests.



The present lot as illustrated in the Catalogue Raisonné
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