Nina Osipowna Kogan

145 - Nina Osipowna Kogan

) Suprematist chess, Supremus. 1929. Comprising a cardboard portfolio and eight watercolour. Watercolour on paper, mounted on cardboard. Portfolio signed, titled and dated in Cyrillic, one watercolour signed in Cyrillic, each watercolour titled in Cyrillic (). Paper browned, age-related condition. 27 x 20.5 cm (portfolio), 19.5 x 12.5 - 22 x 14 cm (watercolour). Provenance: Solomon Shuster Collection, Leningrad. North German Private Collection. Norddeutsche Privatsammlung. The Chess pieces are all made according to the rules of the Suprematist design combining clean shapes, bright and contrasting colours. Cylinders, triangles, quadrangles black, red disc up the pieces and equip a perceptible dynamism. Kogan was introduced to Kazimir Malevich (1918) and invited by Marc Chagall to move to Vitebsk (1919), where she took the introductory course in painting and drawing at the Vitebsk School of Art (1919-22). Active member of UNOVIS (1920). Choreographed and designed the sets and costumes for a tableau vivant called Suprematist Ballet at the Latvian Club in Vitebsk (1920). Illustrated textbooks and worked as an artist for the Reservoir Committee in Moscow (1924-26). Moved to Leningrad (1926), where she abandoned Suprematism and returned to realistic art (late 1920s). Curated exhibitions at the Vyborg House of Culture and the Museum of the Revolution (1926-27), contributed to the permanent exhibition of modern art at the Russian Museum (1927). Worked under Vladimir Lebedev at the department of children's literature of the State Publishing House (from 1928).

1889 St. Petersburg - 1942 Leningrad

Catalogueprice: 7.000 - 10.000 €

Result: 7.000,00 EUR

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