Shocking Insights into Malevich’s ’Black Square’ - artnet News
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Experts at Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery discovered two previous paintings and an inscription underneath Kazimir Malevich’s seminal Black Square (1915).
The Russian museum—which owns one of three versions of the work—performed an x-ray analysis on the top layer of black paint to uncover the underlying images. The findings could reveal the story behind the groundbreaking artwork.