The painting of self-portrait by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich is seen displayed during the opening of the exhibition "Avant-garde. In search of the fourth dimension" at the M17 center of modern art in Kiev, Ukraine. For the first time in Ukraine presented a previously unseen self-portrait by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, which he painted 11 months before his death, according to the organizers. "Now I look like Marx in a grave. When I go out, the children shout Karl Marx," signed Malevich on a self-portrait, in a letter to the poet Grigory Petnikov, painted in 1934, at 8:00 in the morning
The painting of self-portrait by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich is seen displayed during the opening of the exhibition "Avant-garde. In search of the fourth dimension" at the M17 center of modern art in Kiev, Ukraine. For the first time in Ukraine presented a previously unseen self-portrait by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, which he painted 11 months before his death, according to the organizers. "Now I look like Marx in a grave. When I go out, the children shout Karl Marx," signed Malevich on a self-portrait, in a letter to the poet Grigory Petnikov, painted in 1934, at 8:00 in the morning, according to the organizers. The owner of the painting of self-portrait by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, art historian Eduard Dymshits told to Bird in Flight that he acquired it in 1996 from his daughter Petnikova. For more than ten years, he explored the self-portrait to verify its authenticity. According to the collector, he has repeatedly received offers to sell the work of Malevich, but does not plan to part with it. Dymshits said that the artist’s supermatical painting are rated higher than his drawings and even self-portraits, according Bird in Flight website.
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