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Ivan Kliun participated in the Russian avant-garde by exploring relationships between painting, relief and sculpture. Close to Malevich, he pursued Cubist and Futurist experiments before adopting Suprematism. In Composition, painted in 1917 and preserved at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, geometry supports an investigation of luminous effects, colour and texture within the painted image.
An untitled work at MOMus, dating from around 1917, combines watercolour, ink and pencil on paper. Transparent coloured shapes overlap inside a square, altering their contours and relationships. With Red Light, in the early 1920s, Kliun addressed another problem: making light radiate from a central source. The painting belongs to Cosmic Images, a series in which pictorial construction meets an interest in the phenomena of the universe.
This profile brings together identity references for Ivan Kliun and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Dobiaschofsky · Lempertz
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Gouache
Ohne Titel (Composition with a Small Violet Oval/Composition with a Small Blue Oval)
gouache
Auction date : 2025-05-31
Published result : 8820 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 7000
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Oil on painting board
Entourage de IVAN KLIUN — Abstrakte Komposition auf weissem Grund.
Öl auf Mkt
Umkreis
Date to be documented
Circle of
Published result : 3300 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 2800
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Entourage de IVAN KLIUN — Musik.
Öl auf Mkt
Umkreis
Date to be documented
Circle of
Published result : 6800 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1800
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