Kazimir Malevich Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying 1915 (dated on reverse 1914)
- MoMA, Floor 5, 507 The Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Galleries
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 22 7/8 x 19" (58.1 x 48.3 cm)
- Credit
- 1935 Acquisition confirmed in 1999 by agreement with the Estate of Kazimir Malevich and made possible with funds from the Mrs. John Hay Whitney Bequest (by exchange)
- Object number
- 248.1935
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Kazimir Malevich has 103 works online.
- There are 2,455 paintings online.
Installation views
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Cubism and Abstract Art
Mar 2–Apr 19, 1936
4 other works identified
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New Acquisitions and Extended Loans: Cubist and Abstract Art
Mar 25–May 3, 1942
1 other work identified
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The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
Jun 20, 1945–Feb 13, 1946
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The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
Jun 20, 1945–Feb 13, 1946
1 other work identified
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XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
Oct 19, 1954–Feb 6, 1955
2 other works identified
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Art in a Changing World: 1884–1964: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
May 27, 1964
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Permanent Collection
Mar 29, 1972–Apr 21, 1980
2 other works identified
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Revolution: Russian Avant-Garde, 1912–1930
Oct 12, 1978–Jan 2, 1979
1 other work identified
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Masterpieces from the Collection: Selections from the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Centuries
Oct 25, 1980–Jan 27, 1981
3 other works identified
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Masterpieces from the Collection: Selections from the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Centuries
Oct 25, 1980–Jan 27, 1981
2 other works identified
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Masterpieces from the Collection
Mar 2, 1982–Mar 1, 1983
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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Painting and Sculpture
May 17, 1984–Aug 4, 1992
1 other work identified
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Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art, 1910–1980
Oct 2, 1985–Jan 7, 1986
8 other works identified
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Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art, 1910–1980
Oct 2, 1985–Jan 7, 1986
7 other works identified
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Deconstructivist Architecture
Jun 23–Aug 30, 1988
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Selections From The Collection (1992)
Sep 9, 1992–Feb 21, 1993
3 other works identified
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Selections from the Permanent Collection of Painting and Sculpture
Jul 1, 1993
1 other work identified
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Making Choices
Mar 16–Sep 26, 2000
1 other work identified
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Painting &
Sculpture II Nov 20, 2004–Aug 5, 2015
9 other works identified
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Painting &
Sculpture II Nov 20, 2004–Aug 5, 2015
4 other works identified
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A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde
Dec 3, 2016–Mar 12, 2017
3 other works identified
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A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde
Dec 3, 2016–Mar 12, 2017
10 other works identified
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512: Abstraction and Utopia
Fall 2019–Fall 2020
6 other works identified
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512: Abstraction and Utopia
Fall 2019–Fall 2020
3 other works identified
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512: Abstraction and Utopia
Fall 2019–Fall 2020
5 other works identified
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507: In Solidarity
Spring 2022 - Fall 2022
3 other works identified
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507: In Solidarity
Spring 2022 - Fall 2022
1 other work identified
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507: In Solidarity
Spring 2022 - Fall 2022
7 other works identified
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507: Katarzyna Kobro, Shaping Space
Ongoing
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The artist, Moscow and Petrograd/Leningrad. 1915 - 1927
Hugo Haering, Berlin, 1927 - 1930. Malevich took approximately seventy works, including this one, from Leningrad to Berlin in 1927, where the work was displayed at Große Berliner Austellung. Malevich left these paintings and drawings in the care of a Berlin Architect named Hugo Haering when he returned to Leningrad later in 1927. In 1930, Haering transferred the collection to the care of Alexander Dorner, director of the Provinzialmuseum in Hannover. Malevich never returned to Germany to collect the works, and died in Leningrad in 1935 without leaving instructions directing the disposition of his art.
Provinzialmuseum (later Landesmuseum), Hannover, 1930-1935. Dorner exhibited the pictures until the Nazis came to power in 1933, and then placed them in storage to save them from possible destruction. In 1935, Alfred Barr, acting on behalf of The Museum of Modern Art, bought two paintings and two drawings from Dorner, and borrowed other works.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 1935 - present. The works remained on extended loan to The Museum of Modern Art until 1963, when they were acquired into the collection. The acquisition was confirmed in 1999 by agreement with Malevich's heirs and made possible with funds from the Mrs. John Hay Whitney Bequest (by exchange).
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