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| Appraisal ID: | 56969 | |
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| Appraised On: | 26-11-2004 | |
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| Title: | Plate with a Suprematist composition | |
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| Date/Era/Period: | 1923 | |
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| Description: | This is a A plate with a supreme decoration, 1923. Porcelain, painting by the Russian artist Artist Kazimir Severinovich Malevich from State Porcelain Factory. The Lomonosov Porcelain Factory is a unique phenomenon. Its porcelain is the first in Russia, both for this enterprise was the first in terms of the time of its foundation and for its essential contribution to Russian and world culture. Indeed there is a lot of information, some good and some incorrect about Malevich on the internet. This plate demonstrates his constructivism and affiliation with the De Stil and Art Deco movements that were sweeping throughout Europe. You are also correct to know that there are very few plates of this type, I have been fortunate to see one at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. The plate, while not as dramatic of some of the pieces shows a simple geometric shapes in blue, red, black, and tan which were all symbols of the new proletariat created by Trotsky. The plate is in excellent condition. | |
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| Grade: | Extremely Fine | |
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| Condition: | No chips, cracks, stains, some wear in the back where the plate rest from some time. | |
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| Origin: | It was acquired in 1988 from an antique dealer from his private colection. Do not know about price, because it was a gift from the person who acquired the plate to my deceased Mom. | |
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| Provenance: | A plate like this is listed in "ANTIQUES PRICE GUIDE 2004" from the author Judith Miller with a record sale/appraisal of Euros $30,000-$35,000 I had include a scan of the page with the information given. | |
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| Appraised By: | Rachael Goldman |
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| Appraiser Comments: | It seems like your plate is worth a good deal and has an interesting past. I have had the pleasure of seeing a lot of his work from first hand because of my work at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, at Rutgers University, New Jersey. They have the largest collection of Soviet Non-Conformist Art within the United States. I also owned the book that you have sent me. It is a rare piece which commands its high value. They were originally made in sets as official state-ware china, but as a result of the tensions at the time, few plates of this remain. I have supplied a generic biography of the artist. Malevich, Kasimir (1878-1935). Russian painter and designer, with Mondrian the most important pioneer of geometric abstract art. Born near Kiev; trained at Kiev School of Art and Moscow Academy of Fine Arts; 1913 began creating abstract geometric patterns in style he called suprematism; taught painting in Moscow and Leningrad 1919-21; published book, The Nonobjective World (1926), on his theory; first to exhibit abstract geometric paintings; strove to produce pure, cerebral compositions; famous painting White on White (1918) carries suprematist theories to absolute conclusion; Soviet politics turned against modern art, and he died in poverty and oblivion. He began working in an unexceptional Post-Impressionist manner, but by 1912 he was painting peasant subjects in a massive `tubular' style similar to that of Léger as well as pictures combining the fragmentation of form of Cubism with the multiplication of the image of Futurism (The Knife Grinder, Yale Univ. Art Gallery, 1912). Malevich, however, was fired with the desire `to free art from the burden of the object' and launched the Suprematist movement, which brought abstract art to a geometric simplicity more radical than anything previously seen. He claimed that he made a picture `consisting of nothing more than a black square on a white field' as early as 1913, but Suprematist paintings were first made public in Moscow in 1915 and there is often difficulty in dating his work. (There is often difficulty also in knowing which way up his paintings should be hung, photographs of early exhibitions sometimes providing conflicting evidence.) Malevich moved away from absolute austerity, tilting rectangles from the vertical, adding more colors and introducing a suggestion of the third dimension and even a degree of painterly handling, but around 1918 he returned to his purest ideals with a series of White on White paintings. After this he seems to have realized he could go no further along this road and virtually gave up abstract painting, turning more to teaching, writing, and making three-dimensional models that were important in the growth of Constructivism. In 1919 he started teaching at the art school at Vitebsk, where he exerted a profound influence on Lissitzky, and in 1922 he moved to Leningrad, where he lived for the rest of his life. He visited Warsaw and Berlin in 1927, accompanying an exhibition of his works and visited the Bauhaus. In the late 1920s he returned to figurative painting, but was out of favor with a political system that now demanded Socialist Realism from its artists and he died in neglect. However, his influence on abstract art, in the west as well as Russia, was enormous. The best collection of his work is in the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. I would like to recommend that you have a USPAP style appraisal performed for insurance purposes, because your piece would benefit from it. Please feel free to contact me about your piece at RBeat@AOL.com Best wishes, Rachael Goldman |
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