Olga ROZANOVA

Olga Rozanova was a Russian avant-garde painter who worked across Neo-Primitivism, Cubo-Futurism and Suprematism, and is regarded as a key innovator in the development of Russian abstraction. Born in the small town of Melenki, she was closely associated with Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist circle while also producing highly original color-based abstractions of her own. Rozanova died in Moscow in 1918 at just thirty-two, after contracting diphtheria while organizing art events for the first anniversary of the October Revolution.