The first all-Russian congress of futurists

From left to right: Mikhail Matyushin, Kazimir Malevich and Alexey Kruchenykh.
At the country house of Matiushin, Uusikirkko, Finland, July 18, 1913

(Collection of the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg)

A germinal Black Square: Sketch of the scenery for the Opera, Victory over the Sun
(2nd Act, the 5th picture), 1913

(Collection, St. Petersburg state Museum of theatrical and musical art, Saint Petersburg)

 

Poster advertising the 0-10 Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings, 1915

(Private Collection Zurich)

 

0-10 Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings, 1915

(Collection of the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg)

 

Leaflet with the manifestos of Kazimir Malevich, Ivan Klyun and Mikhail Menkov distributed at the Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings 0,10, 1915

(Collection of the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg)

 

Cover of the third edition of the book, From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: New Pictorial Realism, by Malevich, 1916

(Collection of the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg)

Design for the use of The Black Square on Agitprop train, 1920

Suprematism: 34 drawings, 1920

UNIVOS (‘affirmers of the new art’) publisher

(Collection National Gallery of Australia Canberra)

 

Table 1: Formula of Suprematism 1913, Kazimir Malevich, 1920

(Collection of the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg)

 

Malevich lying in state in his self-designed Suprematist coffin beneath the Black Square, 1935

 

Malevich’s funeral car featuring Black Square attached to car radiator, 1935

 

Coffin bearers at Malevich’s funeral, 1935

 

Crowd gathered at Malevich’s funeral, 1935