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Red Cavalry (painting)

Red Cavalry
ArtistKazimir Malevich
Year1932
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions91 cm × 140 cm (36 in × 55 in)
LocationRussian Museum, St. Petersburg

Red Cavalry is an oil on canvas painting of 1932 by the Russian avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich. It depicts Red Cavalry horsemen racing across a plain, the ground beneath them illustrated with Suprematist stripings of color. It is considered Malevich's only contribution into the pantheon of Soviet art; Malevich intentionally dated the work to 1918, and added the blurb “From the capital of the October Revolution, the Red Cavalry rides to defend the Soviet frontier” on the back.[1][2]

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