Lot n° 155
Estimation :
1000 - 1200
EUR
Paul Mansouroff (Pavel Mansurov): Composition, Nice, March 1 - Lot 155
Paul Mansouroff (Pavel Mansurov): Composition, Nice, March 18, 1974 (Colored pencils)
Colored pencils
Dedicated, signed, and dated by hand in the lower left corner: “To my dear friend Yves Guérin, with affection and deep respect, Paul Mansouroff”; inscribed in the lower right corner: “Nice, 3/18/74”
Dimensions:
Sheet: 36 × 27 cm (14.17 × 10.63 in.) — Image: a vertical panel in the center of the sheet
Condition: good condition, unframed
Provenance: Yves Guérin’s guestbook, compiled between 1963 and 1992 (from a single source). Dedicated from Nice in 1974, where the artist was living at the time.
Description: An abstract geometric composition in colored pencils—a vertical grid of rectangles in green, yellow, red, black, and pale blue, framed at the top and bottom by blue bands; two of the squares (one red, the other black) marked with a pair of white discs; a Suprematist style, refined and structured. Paul Mansouroff was a painter of the Russian avant-garde and a leading figure in Suprematism, a colleague of Malevich and Tatlin at the Petrograd Institute of Artistic Culture (1921–28); his entirely non-objective art explored space through elongated vertical surfaces—his “pictorial formulas.” He emigrated to Paris in 1928 and lived in Nice from 1970 until his death in 1983. His work is included in the collections of MoMA and the Centre Pompidou. Signed, dated, and inscribed by hand.
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