Was Malevich paintings worth £ 100 meters found below the pensioner’s bed?

Three unidentified oil paintings given to Avent-Guarde artist Kazimir Malevich are shown in a public museum in Bukharest. If proves to be authentic, they can be more than £ 100 million, but a top scholar says the story behind his origin is problematic.

Now the museum displaying them is refusing to say whether the work is real.

Ukraine -born Kazimir Malevich is considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. On the art market, their paintings are more than any other Ukrainian or Russian artist, a task is selling for record $ 85M (£ 63m) in 2018.

But during a home step in 2023, three unidentified Malevich paintings were discovered under the mattress of Israeli’s Pensioner Eva Lewando, according to the Israeli businessman and owner of the works i.e., according to the owner of the work.

Pensioner is the grandmother of Mr. Cohen’s wife, and she gave her work.

The paintings have been titled Supermatist Composition with green and black rectangles (1918), Cubofuturist composition (1912–13), and supermattist composition with Red Square and Green Triangle (1915–16), and they are being displayed in Romania’s National Museum of Contemporary art by the end of August. The show is sponsored by the dental clinic of Mr. Cohen.

Yet there is doubt in the world of art. Ukrainian-American scholar, Costantin Akinasha told the BBC that the records were incomplete to prove their history and trace him in Malevich’s studio.

The art historian and curator said, “The three works displayed in Bucharest were now shown documents, photographs or shown during the artist’s lifetime.”

Eva Lewando inherited pictures from his father, an accountant in Odessa in Soviet Ukraine. He reportedly bought one of them and received the other two as payment for his services. The absence of records to support this story is explained by Stalin-era Daman of modernist art, Mr. Cohen told the BBC.

According to Mr. Cohen, Ms. Lewando worked in Israel in 1990, worked with her.

Consentin Akinasha said, “There is no evidence of Mallevic’s functions in Russian or Ukrainian art markets in the late 1920s and early 1930s. There is no private sales of their records after 1917.”

But to increase his claim, Yaniv Cohen presented certificates from Kiev art historian Demetro Horbachov, describing the works as a “first class example” of Malevich’s style. He concludes this by analyzing the style and technique of pictures. But Dmytro Horbachov has previously proved disputed works including a painting. Allegedly removed from Albertina Museum in Vienna After doubting its authenticity.

Art historians claim to be an advisor for Sothabi and Christie. A spokesperson told the BBC, but he “works, and never, for Sothabi as a consultant”. Christie also denies any formal union.

Dmytro Horbachov did not respond to an interview request.

Yaniv Cohen says that technical analysis supports his claim.

The BBC reviewed the reports on all the three tasks manufactured by the German laboratory of the Institute D’Art Conservation at Colleur and Elizabeth Jegars and Erhard Jegars in Paris.

While dating pigments and other elements during the lifetime of Malvich, the report decreases by claiming that the tasks were depicted by the artist.

Earlier, reports of these two laboratories proved to be BBC documentary with two paintings, The Jacks Affairs: Anatomy of a fake collection. When presented with our findings, Erhard Jegars told the BBC that technical analysis could not prove the authenticity of a painting.

The French laboratory stated that the report is “no proof of authenticity” and that it has never issued an authenticity certificate for Malevich Works.

Yaniv Cohen insisted that despite Dimtro Horbachov, he is not interested in selling pictures, who think that paintings are authentic, guessing that they could be $ 160M –190m (£ 118–140m).

However, the email viewed by the BBC indicated that he was introduced as collateral for debt. The businessman denied the connection to the proposal, stating that he had no plans to mud the paintings and was financially safe for the cryptocurrency investment.

Unhappy with BBC questions, Mr. Cohen “threatened to make” [BBC journalists] Disappeared “and claimed that he could hack his communication.

Constantin Akinasha questioned the perfection of the paintings, Romania’s National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) removed herself from the paintings.

In a statement, MNAC Is called exhibition “A curatorial experiment” and said that it did not have “specialization in certifying these special tasks”.

The museum stated that it depends on the documents provided by Mr. Cohen and by including his paintings in its exhibition, “should not be interpreted as an institutional verification of his writer or authenticity”.

Constantin Akinsha said that in publicly known cases of disputed works by Malevich and other artists of the period, there were only “snow tips”., Adding that “thousands of suspicious actions still broadcast”.

The market for Russian and Ukrainian modernist art was full of works that “clearly problematic”, Reto Bermetler, a consultant with Sothabi, told the BBC.

He said, “Good avant -garde paintings do not come out from anywhere – they are of clear quality, come with documented perfection and, ideally, an exhibition history,” he explained.

He did not comment on three tasks owned by Yaniv Cohen.