Natalia GoncharovaRussian, 1881–1962Мать
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
Penza Savitsky Art Gallery
Penza, Russia
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
About the painting
In the museum's own words — in Russian
На переднем плане справа сидящая, почти в 3/4 влево, женщина с грудным ребенком на руках. Одета в розовую кофту, черную с белыми клетками юбку (паневу), синий фартук и носки, желтый голвной убор. За изображенной слева сидит ребенок в темно-красноватой одежде. Слева стоит, в профиль вправо, босоногая девушка, смотрящая вдаль. Девушка одета в юбку с темными вертикальными полосками, белую рубашку и фартук (запон) с вышивкой, на голове - красный платок. Фоном служит золотисто-желтый стог сена, за которым слева зеленая трава, деревья (срезанные краем изображения), белая хата с синими ставнями на окне. Дали серые, зеленоватые с синими диагональными линиями.
Penza Savitsky Art Gallery
Particulars
- Accession number
- 246-ж
In the catalog
Sources
- The State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia · fetched 8 days ago
- Image: Penza Savitsky Art Gallery — © Пензенская областная картинная галерея имени К. А. Савицкого · Госкаталог музейного фонда РФ
Meanwhile, in the life of Natalia Goncharova
The whole life1909
First stage work: “The Marriage of Zobeide”
Goncharova designed the sets and costumes for Hugo von Hofmannsthal's “The Marriage of Zobeide” at Konstantin Krakht's private studio; at the same time she decorated sculptural friezes for Moscow mansions and designed wallpaper.
1909
Leaves the Moscow School
Goncharova stopped paying her fees and was struck off the rolls of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. By other accounts she withdrew of her own accord, and in 1910 she, Larionov, Falk, Konchalovsky and Mashkov were expelled from Korovin's portrait class for imitating European Modernism.
24 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.
