The trailblazing Wassily Kandinsky and the bulletproof masters of abstraction, Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, doubled, tortuously, as theorists.
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However, two important pieces, Giacometti's sculpture La Clairiere and Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist Painting, Rectangle and Circle, failed to sell.
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"Painting and the Problem of Architecture" was a collaboration with Kazimir Malevich, who hoped his Suprematist theories on art and spirituality could find wider circulation as cinema.
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