Nina KOGAN - Suprematist Composition

Watercolour on paper
Monogramed on the back
Drawing size : 14 x 14 cm
Frame size : 27 x 33 cm

Nina Kogan (1889-1942) (Нина Осиповна Коган) was born in St Petersburg, and studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture from 1911-1913. From 1919 to 1922, she lived in Vitebsk, training under Marc Chagall and Kazimir Malevich, and teaching at the Vitebsk National School of Art. In 1922, she returned to Moscow where she worked at the Museum of Artistic Culture; in the middle of the decade, she was back in Leningrad. Nina Kogan was known for her geometric abstract art, and later for expressive realism. She is considered one of the main exponents of the Suprematist style of the avant-garde. She was imprisoned for counter-revolutionary activities. After her release, she stayed in the shadows, working for publishing houses in Leningrad.