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the aesthetic he had devised. In June the same year, he left Germany for the Soviet Union, leaving his paintings behind.Malevich was prevented from leaving the Soviet Union again and could not return to Berlin. The "Suprematist Composition" eventually ended up in the Stedelijk. The painting was returned to Malevich's heirs after years of legal wrangling.
Malevich, who was born in Ukraine to Polish parents and studied art in Kiev and Moscow, experimented with various modernist styles, including Cubism and Futurism. He is best known for his works "Black Square" (1915) and "Black Cross" (1916-1917), renowned for their previously unseen geometrical simplicity.
Malevich eventually abandoned all reference to figuration in favor of colored geometric shapes and described that style of art in a treatise known as the "Suprematist Manifesto." He died in 1935.
"The Malevich family is delighted that this masterpiece by our renowned ancestor is being brought
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