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| Natalia Gontcharova 1881 – 1962, Magnolia Branches , Oil on canvas, 22 x 18.4 in |
| Natalie Goncharova (June 4, 1881 – October 17, 1962 ) – was a prominent Russian avant-garde artist Cubo-Futurism), painter and costume designer. Her Great aunt was Natalia Pushkina, wife of the poet Alexander Pushkin. Goncharova was born in Nagaevo village near Tula, Russia in 1881. She studied sculpture at the Moscow Academy of Art, but turned to painting in 1904. She was deeply inspired by the primitive aspects of Russian folk art and attempted to emulate it in her own work while incorporating elements of fauvism and cubism. Together with her husband Mikhail Larionov she first developed Rayonism. They were the main progenitors of the pre-Revolution Russian avant-garde organising the Donkey’s Tail exhibition of 1912 and showing with the Der Blaue Reiter in Munich the same year. The Donkey’s Tail was conceived as an intentional break from European art influence and the establishment of an independent Russian school of modern art. However, the influence of Russian Futurism is much in evidence in Goncharova’s later paintings. Goncharova was a member of the Der Blaue Reiter avant-garde group from its founding in 1911. In 1915, she began to design ballet costumes and sets in Geneva. She moved to Paris in 1921 where she designed a number of stage sets for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. In 1962 she died in Paris. Her works are in the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; Thyssenornemisza Museum, Madrid; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Guggenheim Museum, New York City; Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Art Institute of Chicago; Museum Ludwig, Cologne. |
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