Kazimir Malevich

Kazimir Malevich worked through Impressionism, peasant scenes in a Cubo-Futurist style and then, in 1915, the Black Square and Suprematism, pure geometric forms on white. Under Stalin, when abstraction became dangerous, he returned to figurative painting, with faceless peasants and Renaissance-style portraits, which he backdated to the 1910s. Curators are still untangling which works belong to which period.