Black Circle (or motive 1915) is a 1924 oil-on-canvas painting by the Russian avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich, founder of the Suprematism movement.

It is, along with his Black Square of 1915, one of his most well known early works in this field, depicting pure geometrical figures in primary colours.

However, while the paintings found favour with intellectuals, they did not appeal to the general viewer and as a result Malevich lost official approval.

In his manifesto, Malevich said the works was intended as "desperate struggle to free art from the ballast of the objective world" by focusing only on pure form.

In 1990, art critic Michael Brenson noted of the works, "The one constant in Malevich's Suprematism is the white ground.