Anna KOGAN (Russian, 1902-1973) Abstract Study. Watercolor, Pencil/paper. 17 X 20 cm. From artist family. Anna Kagan has studied at the School of Art in Vitebsk (1919-1922) under K.Malevich. She was a member of the UNOVIS group (Affirmers of New Art). The artist has participated in exhibitions of the UNOVIS group in Vitebsk (1920, 1921), in Moscow (1920, 1921, 1922), and in Petrograd (1923). At the exhibition in Petrograd, which was Malevich's attempt to implement an idea by Larionov for an anonymous exhibition, Kagan's work "White Suprematism" (1923) was presented with no label. Together with the sculptor Pavlov, who has helped Malevich to create Architectons at GINKhUK (State Institute of Artistic Culture), Leningrad (1924-1925). Unlike many of Malevich's students, Anna continued abstract painting rather than being interested in the new Socialist Realism, and has transformed the Suprematism abstraction into architectonic painting (1928-1930). The artist has ceased exhibiting in the new artistic climate, where only subjects declared socially worthy and didactic were drawing positive response. In the late 1920 and early 1930s Kagan was mostly decorating ceramics.