MOSCOW, October 3 (RIA Novosti) - Sotheby's...

The 1916 "Suprematist Composition," which had featured in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, was recently restituted to the artist's family.

"Suprematist Composition is a magnificent modern work of art of enormous art historical importance and cultural resonance," said Emmanuel Di-Donna, the auction house's vice chairman and head of evening sales, New York.

"It ranks amongst the finest paintings of the 20th Century, on a par with the best paintings of modern masters such as Picasso, Rothko, Pollock and de Kooning that have ever come up for sale either at auction or privately," Di-Donna said as quoted in a news release.

The painting will be on display at Sotheby's office in London on October 3-20, and in New York from October 29 to November 3, Sotheby's said.

The painting made its debut at a 1919-20 exhibition in Moscow. In 1927, Malevich accompanied the picture to exhibitions in Warsaw and Berlin, introducing Europe to

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