Why it matters
A man in a top hat, his face partly hidden by a white fish, is surrounded by a collage of a candle, a sabre, a ladder, a spoon and fragments of the words 'partial eclipse'. The Englishman is a metaphor for the clash of East and West.
Did you know?
- It was painted in 1914.
- Malevich was influenced by the Russian literary Futurists.
- It is in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Based on the Wikipedia article An Englishman in Moscow (CC BY-SA 4.0).
