Nathalie Gontcharova

Nathalie Serguéïvna Gontcharova (Nagaïevo, government of Toula 1881 - Paris 1962) is a painter Dessinateur and Russian decorator of theater. She is also the back-small-niece of N.N.Gontcharova, the fatal wife of Pouchkine. In 1901 in Moscow, she studies the sculpture at F. Volnoukhine and Paul Troubetzkoy and painting at Constantin Korovine. She gives up the sculpture in 1904 and devotes herself to painting after her meeting with Michel Larionov which will be the companion of all its life. After a passage of impressionism to the cubism, its néo- Primitivisme as from 1907 is influenced by the icon, the Russian popular imagery ( loubok ) chromos , the artisanal sign. The Christian and religious topics or of country inspiration dominate its work then. It takes part in 1906 in the Russian exposure of art to the Salon of autumn organized in Paris by Serge de Diaghilev. In 1910, with Larionov it takes part in the first Muscovite exposure of the Knave of diamonds. Since 1911 it takes part in the movement Futuriste (deliver-object) 1912-1915; then with the creation of the rayonnism in 1912-1913, not-figurative movement. In 1912, it exposes to the Cavalier Blue in Munich and in 1913 with the Gallery Der Stürm in Berlin. Product the series of the lithographies: Images mystic of the war in 1914. In 1913, it has a great retrospective in Moscow, nearly 700 numbers, and in 1914 a personal exposure to the artistic office of Mrs. Dobytchina in Saint-Pétersbourg; she shows her last work rayonnists there. In 1914, it makes the decorations of the Gold Cock of Rimski-Korsakov for the Russian Ballets and exposes with Larionov to the Gallery Paul Guillaume (foreword of the catalog Apollinaire).
It is member of association Mir Iskousstva. In June 1915, it definitively leaves Russia for Switzerland. 1917, it accompanies the troop by Diaghilev in tounée in Spain, and Italy, and settles with Larionov in Paris in 1918. Naturalized French in 1939. In the years 1920, it is one of the principal painters of the Russian Ballets of Diaghilev, and designs in particular the decorations for the Weddings of Stravinski.Elle also works for Ida Rubinstein, the Russian Ballet of Monte Carlo. Many exposures are devoted to him: Barbazanges gallery in 1919, Wild Gallery in 1928. Painter of the School of Paris, it is member of the Salon of autumn since 1921, it takes part regularly in the Salon of Tileries and the Salon of independent the. The war and the post-war period will be a great period of poverty and of lapse of memory for NR. Gontcharova and Mr. Larionov and it will be necessary to wait until 1954 at the time of great retrospectives Serge de Diaghilev in London so that one starts again with speaking about them. They marry officially in 1955. A great retrospective of the work of Larionov and Gontcharova is organized in London by the Council of Art of Great Britain in 1961. The Museum of Modern art of the Town of Paris devotes a retrospective with Mr. Larionov to him after his death. It is buried with the cemetery of Ivry.

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