Natalia GoncharovaRussian, 1881–1962Лев
May one see it?
Unknown
State Russian Museum
Saint Petersburg, Russia
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the work
In the museum's own words — in Russian
Издательская деятельность футуристов оставила большое наследие, в которое входят также и почтовые открытки с композициями, созданными по мотивам станковых произведений художников-футуристов и их портретов. Производство открытых писем и являлось одной из форм распространения идей и пропаганды эстетики авангарда. Инициатором этого вида деятельности стал Алексей Крученых , который привлек к ней Наталию Гончарову , братьев Михаила и Ивана Ларионовых, Владимира Татлина, Александра Шевченко и Николая Роговина. Русский музей обладает значительным собранием открытых писем, изданных Крученых. Екатерина Климова. Футуристическая книга // Наш авангард. СПб, 2025. С.342.
State Russian Museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- Гр.-44067
Meanwhile, in the life of Natalia Goncharova
The whole life24 March 1910
First solo show and a charge of pornography
At the club of the Society of Free Aesthetics Goncharova showed 22 paintings for a single day; after an anonymous notice in the newspaper “Golos Moskvy” the police seized two “Models” and the painting “God”, and she was charged with pornography.
December 1910 – January 1911
First Jack of Diamonds exhibition
The first show of the Jack of Diamonds — Moscow's first radical independent exhibiting group, named by Larionov — included Goncharova's Primitivist and Cubist paintings.
1911
Develops Rayonism with Larionov
Goncharova and Larionov developed Rayonism and painted many works in the style (elsewhere Rayonism is dated 1912–1914).
March – April 1912
The Donkey's Tail: over fifty paintings
More than fifty of her paintings hung at the first Donkey's Tail exhibition, which Larionov organised as a break with European influence; the censor confiscated “The Evangelists” as blasphemous.
autumn 1913
Solo show on Bolshaya Dmitrovka
Goncharova's largest solo show (together with the spring show in St Petersburg, over 700 works of 1900–1913) closed with the first catalogue-monograph on her and Larionov, edited by I. M. Zdanevich; its preface carries the famous words about turning away “from the West” to the East, whose authorship is disputed.
