Suprematistn.adj.

1919 O. M. Sayler Russia White or Red v. 89 Bubnovy Valyet, or the Jack of Diamonds, counts its futurists and cubists conservative to-day in the presence of its ‘suprematists’, a group headed by Casimir Malyevitch.

1958 Listener 31 July 168/3 Malevich and the Suprematists reflected it, in a form so extreme and absolute that it led to the painting of a picture consisting of a white square on a white ground.

1980 I. Murdoch Nuns & Soldiers i. 80 He became a cubist, then a surrealist, then a fauve: a futurist, a constructivist, a suprematist.

1996 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 Jan. 45/1 The Suprematists and Constructivists alike acknowledged that it was Cézanne who had got their show on the road.

1922 Soviet Russia 15 May 268/1 The ‘First Studio of Moscow’, under the direction of Malyevich, the ‘suprematist’ painter.

1958 Spectator 14 Feb. 203/1 His Suprematist work exploiting a simple vocabulary of colours and shapes and rhythms.

1972 Times 13 Apr. 4/8 A Suprematist construction of about 1916..by Ivan Puni made £3,200.

2008 Slavic Rev. 67 897 Some of the suprematist paintings shown by Malevich at the ‘0,10’ exhibition had titles explicitly referring to the fourth dimension.