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Ex-Libris for P. V. Gubar
1925 · Lithographed bookplate
Sheet: 2 3/8 x 2" (6 x 5.1 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Il'ia Chashnik
Artist
SuprematismAbstract Art
Representation
None documented
3
Institutional Exhibitions
5
Works in Collection
11
Assets Indexed
0
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Publications Referenced
90%
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Movements
- • Suprematism
- • Abstract Art
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Deconstructivist Architecture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1988
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Drawings Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1987
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Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art, 1910�1980
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
About
Why this artist matters now
Il'ia Chashnik was a Russian abstract artist and a leading figure in Suprematism during the 1920s. Working primarily in painting and graphic design, he developed geometric compositions rooted in Kazimir Malevich's radical vocabulary of pure form and color. His career was cut short by his death in 1929 at age 27, limiting his output but establishing him as a significant presence in the Soviet avant-garde's most experimental decade.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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