Design sketch for the cover of the journal "Yugo Lef"

The draft for the cover of the "Yugo Lef" magazine, created by Ivan Kliun in the mid-1920s, reflects the evolution of his artistic journey. It incorporates elements of Cubo-Futurism found in his artworks from the 1910s while also indicating his transition beyond Suprematism and non-objective art. As he notes in his autobiographical text, "My Path in Art," he writes: "Finally, I began to understand and feel with my inner perception that non-objective art had taken me far ahead, depriving the new viewer of an understanding of my art... I started placing various individual objects on my canvases, giving them my own unique interpretation. I conveyed the fullness and the realistic substance of these objects not through the progression of shifts but through a mutual photochromatic penetration of the objects (diaphanous overlap)". This brought my interpretation of objects and their composition closer to the interpretation provided by Ozenfant and Jeanneret, with the only difference being that Ozenfant and Jeanneret had Cubism and Suprematism as their starting points, along with non-objective art.