Suprematist Study of Color and Form

Kliun made his first abstract experiments in the period 1916-1917, which show that the artist was carefully studying Malevich's Suprematist system, as he was engaged in the search for the plastic possibilities of the geometric shape set on a white background. The cycle of works, made with a rather unusual painting technique, oil on paper, consisted of these compositions of one shape such as the black quadrilateral.