Artist: Ilya Chashnik (Russian, 1902-1929).
Title: "Suprematist Composition".
Medium: Watercolor and pencil drawing on paper.
Date: Composed 1923.
Dimensions: Overall size: 7 3/8 x 8 15/16 in. (187 x 227 mm). Image size: 7 1/8 x 8 15/16 in. (181 x 227 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil, lower right recto; collectors ink stamps, verso. Painted on light cream wove paper. Condition is good to very good; lower right corner repair; the work was probably removed from a sketch book with the customary binding holes and horizontal crease, upper edge, not into the image; typed label upper center, verso: “Ilya Chashnik Architecture Suprematiste 1923;” overall presents very well. Provenance: If you have a genuine interest in bidding on this work kindly send an email to:
[email protected] for provenance information and additional image(s). Comment(s): Two auction records of note to compare to our present example are the sale of Chashnik’s “Suprematist Composition,” watercolor and pencil on paper, unsigned, 8 1/2” x 5 1/2” sold for $19,050 (£15,000) including premium at Sotheby’s London, New Bond Street, 06/04/2019, lot #69; and “Suprematisticher entwurf,” watercolor and ink on paper, unsigned, 3 1/8” x 8 7/8,” sold for $28,950 (€18,600) including premium at Finarte, Milan, 03/11/2008, lot #120. Chashnik was a Suprematist artist, a pupil of Kazimir Malevich, and a founding member of the UNOVIS school. He died during a botched appendix operation at the age of 27. [30208-1-6000]
