Catalogue
- Year
- 1923
- Dimensions
- Page: 7 1/4 x 5 7/16" (18.4 x 13.8 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Ivan Kliun
Artist

Painting
Ivan Kliun was a Russian painter and pioneering abstract artist associated with the Suprematist movement in early 20th-century Moscow. Working primarily in oil on canvas, he developed geometric compositions that emphasized the reduction of form to essential shapes and color relationships. His practice engaged directly with the radical formal experiments of the Russian avant-garde, particularly the intersection of Cubism and non-objective art. Kliun's work remains significant to the history of abstraction in Soviet modernism, though detailed documentation of his exhibition history and archival materials remains limited outside Russian institutional collections.
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Sketch for Turnir Poetov (Tournament of Poets)
1928 · Gouache on paper
Neizdannyi Khlebnikov,1916-1921, no. 9
1928 · Cover with lithographed manuscript text by Kliun on front; 1 lithographed illustration by Terent'ev; lithographed manuscript text
Cup, Pitcher, Bottles
1927 · Pencil on paper
Still Life
1925 · Pencil and colored pencil on paper
Composition
1920 · Watercolor on paper
Suprematism
1916 · Oil on wood
Record
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- Ivan Kliun
- Year
- 1923
- Dimensions
- Page: 7 1/4 x 5 7/16" (18.4 x 13.8 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1923-M016062
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Status
- verified





