#ivan puni

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Ivan Puni, Suprematist Composition, 1915

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Ivan (Jean) Albertovich Puni, Red violin (1919)

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Ivan Puni 

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Jean Pougny (Ivan Puni) (Russian, 1892-1956), Flight of Forms, 1919. Gouache and pencil on paper, 129.7 x 130.8 cm

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Ivan Puni (Jean Pougny)  (Russian, 1892 - 1956)

Relief,  c. 1915–16

Oil paint, wood, cardboard and zinc on wood ,  368 x 241 x 73 mm

© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2016 /  © Tate, London 2017

Inspired by the introduction of real materials in Cubist collage, Puni created relief constructions that combined found elements into abstract painterly compositions. He was closely associated with Kazimir Malevich and was a co-author and signatory of the Suprematist Manifesto of 1916, which proclaimed a new type of abstract art for a new era in history: ‘…it is absurd to force our age into the old forms of a bygone age. The hollow of the past cannot contain the gigantic constructions and movement of our life.’

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Ivan Puni, Relief, 1915-1916

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Ivan Puni

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Velimir Khlebnikov reads poetry to Kseniya Boguslavskaya (Ivan Puni, 1915)