Morning in the Village After Snowstorm
1912 · Guggenheim, New York City
Peasants and houses rendered as polished metal cylinders. Malevich was three years away from painting a black square and stopping.
★ 6.1
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Nude Descending a Staircase
1912 · Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
A critic at the 1913 Armory Show called it an explosion in a shingle factory, and the insult followed the painting around America.
★ 8.0