Black Circle

Black Circle
ArtistKazimir Malevich
Year1924
Mediumoil on canvas
LocationState Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Black Circle (or motive 1915) is a 1924 oil-on-canvas painting by the Kyiv-born Ukrainian artist Kazimir Malevich, founder of the Suprematism movement. From the mid-1910s, Malevich abandoned any trace of figurature or representation from his paintings in favour of pure abstraction.