Paul Mansouroff : Composition, 1974 (Coloured pencils)

By MANSOUROFF Paul (1896-1983)

Paul Mansouroff (Pavel Mansurov) (1896–1983)
Composition, Nice, 18 March 1974
Coloured pencils
Dedicated, signed and dated by hand, lower left: “Pour mon cher Ami Yves Guérin, avec sentiment et plein respect, Paul Mansouroff”; inscribed lower right “Nice, 18/3/74”

Dimensions:
Sheet 29.7 × 21 cm (11 ⅝ × 8 ¼ in.) — Image: a vertical panel at the centre of the sheet

Condition: good condition, unframed

Provenance: Livre d’Or de Yves Guérin, compiled 1963–1992 (single-owner provenance). Dedicated from Nice in 1974, where the artist then lived.

Description: A geometric abstract composition in coloured pencil — a vertical grid of rectangles in green, yellow, red, black and pale blue, framed top and bottom by blue bands, two of the cells (one red, one black) marked with a pair of white discs; a spare, structured, Suprematist idiom. Paul Mansouroff was a Russian avant-garde painter and a protagonist of Suprematism, a colleague of Malevich and Tatlin at the Petrograd Institute of Artistic Culture (1921–28); his wholly non-objective art used elongated vertical surfaces — his “pictorial formulae” — to explore space. He emigrated to Paris in 1928 and from 1970 lived in Nice until his death in 1983. His work is held at MoMA and the Centre Pompidou. Signed, dated and dedicated by hand.

Price : 800,00 € ( 911.00 USD )