Black Cross (painting)

Black Cross (also known as The Black Cross) is an iconic oil painting by Kazimir Malevich. The first version was done in 1915. From the mid-1910s, Malevich abandoned any trace of figurature or representation from his paintings in favour of pure abstraction.

History
Black Cross was first shown in The Last Futurist Exhibition 0,10 in 1915. One of the parts of Kazimir Malevich’s triptych (Black Square, Black Cross, Black Circle).