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Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova was a Russian avant-garde artist, painter, costume designer, writer, illustrator, and set designer. Goncharova's lifelong partner was fellow Russian avant-garde artist Mikhail Larionov. She was a founding member of both the Jack of Diamonds (1909–1911), Moscow's first radical independent exhibiting group, the more radical Donkey's Tail (1912–1913), and with Larionov in…
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culture · Russian-French artist (1881–1962) · painter · scenographer · costume designer · illustrator · draftsperson · fashion designer · writer · artist · graphic artist · sculptor · also Natalia Goncharova, Natalya Sergeevna Goncharova, Natalija Gončarova, Natal'ya Sergeyevna Goncharova, Natalja Goncjarowa, Natalja Gontscharowa
Born 21 June 1881 · Died 17 October 1962 · Q232391
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A scholar researching the life of the Czech Futurist painter Růžena Zátková found two previously unknown gouaches by Goncharova in a private collection; both the works were dedicated to Zatkova, and were from 1916
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An exhibition on Goncharova was held at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence
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Goncharova's 1912 still-life The Flowers (formerly part of Guillaume Apollinaire's collection) sold for $10
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Died 1962-10-17.
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The Arts Council of Great Britain held a major retrospective of Goncharova's and Larionov's work
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Goncharova became a French national
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And participated regularly at the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon des Indépendants
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Where she designed a number of stage sets of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
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Started work on a series of designs – Six Winged Seraph, Angel, St Andrew, St Mark, Nativity, and others – for a ballet commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev, to be titled Liturgy
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Began to design ballet costumes and sets in Geneva
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Mikhail Larionov distancing from Aristarkh Lentulov and Pyotr Konchalovsky and forming a more provocative group, the Donkey's Tail
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And Larionov developed Rayonism, and produced many paintings in that style
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A number of students were expelled from Konstantin Korovin's portrait class for imitating the contemporary style of European Modernism, with Goncharova, Larionov, Robert Falk, Pyotr Konchalovsky, Alexander Kuprin, Ilya M
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In favor of classes at Ilya Mashkov and Alexander Mikhailovsky's studios, where she was able to study male and female nudes, and was trained the equivalent of what she would have learnt upon completion at the Moscow Scho
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Born 1881-06-21.
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