Suprematism (formerly) Abstraction Artist: Alexander Drewin (Russian, 1889–1938)

1921

Modern and Contemporary Art

Not on view
Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

42 3/16 × 34 3/16 in. (107.2 × 86.8 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Collection Société Anonyme

Accession Number

1941.445

Culture

Russian

Period

20th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Galerie Van Diemen, Berlin, Erste Russishe Kunstausstellung, October 1922; Katherine Dreier, 1922–41; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Isabel Wünsche, "Katherine S. Dreier’s Promotion of German Modernism and the Russian Avant-Garde," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2020–21), 51
  • Ruth L. Bohan et al., The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, ed. Jennifer Gross, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 53, fig. 9
  • Stationen Der Moderne, exh. cat. (Berlin: Berlininsche Galerie, 1988),
  • Robert L. Herbert, Eleanor S. Apter, and Elise K. Kenney, The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1984), 223, no. 230, ill
  • Robert C. Williams, Rusian Art and American Money, 1900–1940 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980), 96
  • John E. Bowlt, "Concepts of Color and the Soviet Avant-Garde," Structurist (1973–1974), 22, ill
  • John E. Bowlt, "The Failed Utopia: Russian Art 1917–32," Art in America 59 (July–August 1971), 40–51
  • Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1950), 36, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

abstract (general art genre)

Inscriptions

Inscibred verso in unidentified hand "Drewin / K{illegible} st Schwarz / Weiss"

Signed

Signed l.l. "A Drewin" and verso "A. Drewin / 21 / 3 / Moscou"

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