Ex-Libris for P. V. Gubar

Il'ia Chashnik was a Russian abstract artist and a leading figure in Suprematism during the 1920s. Working primarily in painting and graphic design, he developed geometric compositions rooted in Kazimir Malevich's radical vocabulary of pure form and color. His career was cut short by his death in 1929 at age 27, limiting his output but establishing him as a significant presence in the Soviet avant-garde's most experimental decade.