Malevich's 1916 Suprematist
Composition was sold
by Sotheby's for $60m in 2008
Russian officials say they will commemorate the burial
site of the artist Kasimir Malevich, found to be under a new housing
development in a Moscow suburb.
The
world-famous abstract artist died in the Soviet Union in 1935.
An urn
containing his ashes was buried in the suburb of Nyemchinovka, but the location
was only pinpointed recently.
Now there are
plans to put up a plaque and name a school after Malevich, who launched
abstract Suprematism in art.
He is
especially famous for a painting called Black Square. In 2008 another one of
his paintings, Suprematist Composition, sold for $60m (£39m) at a Sotheby's
auction in New York.
About 80
paintings by Malevich are on display in galleries worldwide.
The Moscow
region's ministry of culture said the site chosen for the housing development
did not have protected cultural status, as the ministry did not know where
Malevich's ashes had been buried when the project went ahead.
Work on the
development, called Romashkovo-2, began in 2011 and only a year later did a
local group called "Nyemchinovka and Malevich" find the exact place
where his ashes had been buried, the Russian Lenta.ru news website reports. By
that time a block of flats had already been built.
During World
War II a memorial plaque marking the site disappeared. Malevich had asked to be
buried under a favourite oak tree, but that too disappeared in Soviet times and
the field where it stood was repeatedly ploughed up.
Source: BBC
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