Vera Efimovna Pestel (1886 - 1952), Russian Avant-garde oil on canvas painting "Interior. Family at the table," circa 1920-1921. Unframed. Note: Vera Efimova Pestel was a Russian painter, draughtswoman and designer. Trained in Munich under the Hungarian painter Simon Hollosy, among others, from 1909 to 1911. She later traveled across Germany, Italy and France. In 1912-1913, she studied under Le Fauconnier and Metzinger at La Palette in Paris. Around 1915-1916, her paintings bore similarities to Malevich’s alogism, with a profusion of geometrical planes and heterogeneous elements (numbers, letters, fragments of objects). They became increasingly abstract under the influence of Suprematism, and particularly remarkable for their keen sense of color and subtle constructions. V. Pestel took part in the Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings 0,10 in 1915 in Petrograd – where Malevich’s “suprematism of painting” was mentioned for the first time – and in the exhibition Magasin, organized by Tatlin in Moscow.

Dimensions: 20 x 16 in., (51 x 40.5 cm.)