Art Institute of Chicago

Painterly Realism of a Football Player—Color Masses in the 4th Dimension

Kasimir Malevich · Summer/fall 1915

Provenance

Ownership history

The artist (d. 1935); by descent to the artist’s heirs; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, January 2011.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Petrograd, Galerie Dobychina, 0,10 (Zero-Ten). The Last Futurist Exhibition of Painting, December 19, 1915–January 19, 1916, cat. 40, as Painterly Realism of a Football Player—Color Masses in the 4th Dimension [installation photograph].
Moscow, Sixteenth State Exhibition, One-Man Exhibition, K. S. Malevich, opened March 25, 1920, no cat. [installation photograph (showing work hung in the reverse orientation)].
Warsaw, Polish Art Club, Exhibition of Kazimir Malevich, March 20-27, 1927, no cat. [installation photograph (showing work hung in the reverse orientation)].
Berlin, Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung, Sonderausstellung Malevich, May 7–September 30, 1927 [installation photograph].
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, First Showing of the Malevich Collection, December 1957–January 1958, no cat.
Braunschweig Kunstverein, Malevich, February 16–March 16, 1958, cat. 23 (ill.), as Fußballmatch.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Casimir Malevich (1878–1935), May 21–June 15, 1958, cat. 23, as Match de football.
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Paintings from the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, January 7–February 4, 1959; traveled to Milwaukee Art Center, February 12–March 12, 1959; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, March 20–April 20, 1959; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, April 27–May 24, 1959, cat. 47, as Football Match.
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Kasimir Malevich, 1878–1935, October–November, 1959, p. 16, cat. 23.
Humlebaek, Denmark, Louisiana Museum, Malevich, March 25–April 25, 1960, cat. 23 (ill.), as Fodboldkamp.
Ulmer Museum, Malevich, October 1–29, 1961, no cat.
Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Kasimir Malevich, 1878–1935, December 14, 1961–January 14, 1962; traveled to Vienna, Galerie Würthle, January 25–February 17, 1962, cat. 15, as Fußballmatch.

Literature

Published references

Henryk Stazewski, “Malevich,” in MUBA (Muse Baro Apzvalga), no. 1, 1928, n.p. (ill.).
Praesens, no. 2, 1930, p. 107 (ill.).
Art Contemporain/Sztuka wspolczesna, no. 3, 1930, p. 89 (ill.).
Jan Brzekowski, Pri l' Moderna Arto, ed. Salo Grenkamp-Kornfeld (Budapest: Literatura Mondo, 1933), p. 32 (ill.), cat. 38.
Margot Aschenbrenner, “Farben und Formen im Work von Kasimir Malewitsch 1878–1935,” in Quadrum IV, 1957, pp. 101, 103, (color ill.).
Troels Andersen, Malevich: Catalogue Raisonné of the Berlin Exhibition 1927, including the Collection in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1970), pp. 72 (color ill.), 94, cat. 51.
Christoph Brockhaus and Manfred Fath, eds., Malewitsch-Mondrian, Konstruktion als Konzept: Alexander Dorner gewidmet (Ludwigshafen: Wilhelm Hack Museum, 1977), p. 31 (installation photograph).
Larissa A. Zhadova, Malevich: Suprematism and Revolution in Russian Art 1910–1930 (London: Thames and Hudson, 1978), pp. 62 (ill.), 255 (installation photograph), 257 (installation photograph), 363, cat. 45.
Jean Claude Marcadé, ed., Malévitch: Colloque International Kazimir Malévitch (Lausanne: L’Age d’Homme, 1979), p. 238 (ill.), cat. 86.
Charlotte Douglas, Swans of Other Worlds: Kazimir Malevich and the Origins of Abstraction in Russia (Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1980), p. 60, 123, fig. 11 (installation photograph).
Linda Dalrymple Henderson, The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983), p. 287.
Andréi Nakov, Malevitch Écrits (Paris: Champ libre, 1986), between pp. 78 and 79, fig. 30 (installation photograph).

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