Ivan Kliun, Russian Soviet, 1873 to 1943, mixed media, charcoal and pastel, painting on paper, depicting a group portrait of villagers. Signed lower right. Framed. Ivan Vasilyevich Kliun was a Russian Soviet artist and art theorist, master of the Russian avant garde of the first half of the 20th century. Companion and follower of Kazimir Malevich, author of a theoretical essay on Suprematism, The Art of Color. Kliun began his career as an artist with landscapes and still lifes, executed in an impressionistic manner, and ended with still lifes and landscapes, meticulously verified, realistic. One of a kind artwork.