Suprematist composition

SUPREMATIST COMPOSITION

Originator of the avant-garde Suprematist movement Kazimir Malevich’s student.

SENKIN SERGEI YAKOVLEVICH (1894 – 1963)
In 1914 – 1915 studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. From 1918 to 1919 studied under Kazimir Malevich, who influenced on Senkin’s early works. Studied at VHUTEMAS (graduated in 1921). Worked together with the artist Gustav Klutsis – the founder of the Soviet photomontage posters.

SUPREMATIST COMPOSITION
Year 1920
Signed in Cyrillic and dated lower right: S. Senkin. 20
Oil on canvas
47 х 32.5 см

PROVENANCE:
Acquired by the present owner in Moscow in the end of the 1980-ies.

EXPERTISES:
• The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, receipt No. 16 from November 19 , 2003, expert Tatiana Sergeevna Zelukina.
• Nina Ivanovna Lapidus – art historian, expert in Russian art, senior scientist and curator of the Russian paintings in the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga from 1969 to 1995, member of the Artists’ Union of Latvia. The organizer of the first exhibition of Gustav Klucis artworks in the Latvian National Museum of Art in 1970 and the compiler of the exhibition catalogue. The exhibition was dedicated to the 75th anniversary from the date of birth.

LITERATURE:
Monograph “Ideas and Practices of Federalism in Soviet National-Cultural Policy (1917-1929)”, author Tamara Yusufovna Krasovitskaya, Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, publisher «Kuchkovo pole Muzeon», Moscow, 2023. Reproduced on the cover.

The painting carries the revolutionary ideas of the revolution coverage of the whole planet. It does not carry an abstract character. Created using shapes and colors, a specific image that carries certain information.
This is an example of a new revolutionary art based on cubo-futurism and constructivism. Such works of the artist are extremely rare.

CONDITION REPORT:
The painting is in good condition.

Price on request.

Senkin Sergei

Born in 1894 in Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo, now Moscow district. Up to 1963 he lived in Moscow.
He studied in the years 1914-1915 at the Moscow School of painting, sculpture and building. He did military service until 1918 (in the capacity of a „ man of art”). Thereupon he continued studies with K.Malevich at the State Union of Free Arts Studios in 1918-1919 and graduated in 1921. There he made his acquaintance of G. Klucis and from the 1920s they worked together at designing books and magazines, making posters, applying also photomontage. In the years 1922-1923 together with G. Klucis he made an attempt to set up an experimental studio of agitational art. In 1923 he became member of the LEFA the (Leftist Front of Arts), canvassing artists in order to set up what came to be called the „Workshop of Revolution”.
He did designs for the Moscow city on occasions of revolutionary festivities, exhibitions and displays: for the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition in 1923; the exhibition on the occasion of the Congress of the Comintern in 1924; the All-Union Exhibition of Polygraphy in 1927; for the Soviet pavilion in Cologne in 1928 (jointly with Al Lisitsky; the Soviet pavilion at the World Exhibition in 1939.

Exhibitions: In 1921 – a personal exhibition „30 works. Realism, Futurism, Suprematism and spatial suprematism; in 1923 – Exhibition of paintings by Petrograd painters of various schools, painted over 5 years, held in the halls of the Academy of Fine Arts; in 1924 – „Association of New Trends in Art,” Petrograd; in 1927 – All-Union Exhibition of Polygraphic Works, Moscow; in 1927 – Exhibition of the Achievements of the Soviet Power in 10 years, held in Berlin, Vienna. Prague, Stockholm, Oslo and Copenhagen; in 1929 – Exhibition „Life of Children in the Soviet Union, held in Moscow; in 1930 – the First Exhibition of the Association „October”, Moscow; in 1930 – Exhibition of Graphic Arts, Drawings, Posters and Books, Danzig; in 1931 – International Exhibition „The Art of Books”, Paris; in 1932 – the First All-Union Exhibition of Posters in Moscow; International Exhibition of Posters in Liege, Vervie; in 1933 – „The Artists of the Russian Federation during 15 years, Moscow; Exhibition of Soviet Graphic Art, Books on Art, of Posters, Photography, Madrid, Paris; Exhibition of Soviet Posters in New-York, and many others.

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