A watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper painting with an untitled Suprematist composition attributed to Nikolai Suetin, Russian, Soviet, 1897-1954. Pencil signed in Cyrillic, lower right. On the back there are stamps from the Soviet period, including the stamp of the Meshkovsk Library. Nikolai Suetin was a Russian Suprematist artist. He worked as a graphic artist, a designer, and a ceramics painter. Suetin studied at the Vitebsk Higher Institute of Art, 1918-1922, under Kazimir Malevich, founder of Suprematism, an early abstract art movement which developed a style based on non-objective geometric shapes in alignment. From 1920 the artist participated in exhibitions including those of the UNOVIS group, Vitebsk, 1920 and 1921; Moscow 1929, 1921 and 1922, Petrograd exhibitions, an International Exhibition of Decorative Art held in Paris, 1925, the Exhibition of Soviet Porcelain, 1926 and 1927, and the First Exhibition of Leningrad artists in the Russian Museum among others. Nikolai Suetin is generally considered one of the leading Suprematist artists.