An Englishman in Moscow

An Englishman in Moscow (Russian: англичанин в москве, Dutch: Een Engelsman in Moskou), is a 1914 oil on canvas painting by Russian avant-garde artist and art theorist Kazimir Malevich.

Malevich also painted symbols and text characters onto the canvas—segments of the words "partial" and "solar eclipse" are seen in Russian.

[6] The Tate Modern, where An Englishman in Moscow was exhibited in 2014,[7] has described its meaning as: Narrating a short documentary film about the painting, art critic Edwin Mullins proposed an alternative interpretation, suggesting the canvas is telling the story of an Englishman's journey through Moscow and it depicts: Regarding the text on the canvas, the art history book The Challenge of the Avant-Garde argued that, "Russian futurism in the visual arts was closely linked to literary experimentation.

Kazimir Malevich drew on both Cubist visual devices and contemporary Russian poetry to disrupt conventions of meaning in so-called Cubo-Futurist paintings like An Englishman in Moscow.

Reviewing the 2014 Malevich exhibit at the Tate Modern, The Evening Standard said the painting is, "anti-rational forerunner of surrealism, colliding cubist fragments with apparently random objects.