Artist: Ivan Kliun (Russian, 1873-1943). Title: "Spherical Suprematism #1". Medium: Gouache, watercolor, and pencil drawing on paper. Date: Composed 1922-23. Dimensions: Overall size: 9 x 6 7/8 in. (229 x 175 mm). Image size: 8 x 6 in. (203 x 152 mm). Lot Note(s): Signed in gouache, lower left recto; Artist name in pencil, lower center verso; collector ink stamps, verso. Painted on light cream wove paper. Overall condition very good; slight waving of the paper, upper ¼ of the sheet; typed label upper center, recto; minor staining lower center, recto, perhaps the result of the removal of a previously applied label; no serious condition issues at all. Provenance: If you have a genuine interest in bidding on this work kindly send an email to: provenance@stanfordauctioneers.com for provenance information and additional image(s). Comment(s): We found three auction sales of Kliun works comparable to our example: the sale of “Composition” for $40,651 (€30,680) including premium, watercolor, gouache, and pencil on paper, 8 1/2” x 7,” 1920, at Griesbach, Berlin, November 26, 2004, lot #1507; the sale of “Constructivist Composition” for $17,421 (£9,520) including premium, watercolor, gouache, and ink on paper, 10 7/8” x 8 1/4," at Bloomsbury Auctions, London, 05/20/2005, lot #181; and “Composition” for $15,465 (£8,400) including premium, watercolor and pencil on paper, 6 1/2” x 4 1/2,” at Sotheby’s London, May 19, 2005, lot # 140. Ivan Vasilievich Kliun (or Klyun, born Klyunkov), was a Russian Avant-Garde painter, sculptor and art theorist, associated with the Suprematist movement. Suprematism is an art movement focused on basic geometric forms, such as circles, squares, lines, and rectangles, painted in a limited range of colors. It was founded by Kazimir Malevich in Russia, and announced in Malevich's 1915 Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings 0.10, in St. Petersburg, where he, alongside 13 other artists, exhibited 36 works in a similar style. The term “suprematism” refers to an abstract art based upon "the supremacy of pure artistic feeling" rather than on visual depiction of objects. [30202-1-8000]