If you stick to more or less close contexts, then the first good avant-garde painting with a stripe will be Rozanova's “Green Stripe”.
If we go a little further, and allow for the consideration of easel works that have nothing to do with modernism, that is, for example, tantric painting of the 17th century:
Finally, if we look at non-Stank works, similar abstractions are found in early 11th-century Cologne manuscripts, such as Évangéliaire de Cologne, fol. 126v-127:
Now that we're so far away, I can't pass up the opportunity to mention prehistoric abstraction in rock art. Here are ornaments from the Koonalda cave in Australia, they are about 20 thousand years old.
If you stick to more or less close contexts, then the first good avant-garde painting with a stripe will be Rozanova's “Green Stripe”.
If we go a little further, and allow for the consideration of easel works that have nothing to do with modernism, that is, for example, tantric painting of the 17th century:
Finally, if we look at non-Stank works, similar abstractions are found in early 11th-century Cologne manuscripts, such as Évangéliaire de Cologne, fol. 126v-127:
Now that we're so far away, I can't pass up the opportunity to mention prehistoric abstraction in rock art. Here are ornaments from the Koonalda cave in Australia, they are about 20 thousand years old.