Costume for opera "Pobeda nad
Solntsem" ("Victory over the Sun")
by Matiushin executed in 1913.
Brown pencil and watercolor on a
flimsy paper (from a notebook,
bearing stamp of a some
pre-Revolutionary Russian military
unit on the reverse),
22,5 x 16,4 cm, signed low right"KMalev" and inscribed"Sportsman", "14" (blue pencil)
plus some instructions to costume
maker.
1896-1916 Studied at the School of Painting in Kiev; 1904-05 at the School of Painting, Sculpture, & Architecture in Moscow. One of the leading figures in the Russian Avantgarde & founder of Suprematism. Painter, sculptor, & art theorist.