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Соляные столпы, Natalia Goncharova, c. 1910
Natalia Goncharova, portraitNatalia GoncharovaRussian, 1881–1962

Соляные столпы

c. 1910 · Drawing · 80.5 × 95.5 cm

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Unknown

Tretyakov Gallery

Moscow, Russia

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

In this state since
Sep 28, 2026
Source
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About the work

In the museum's own words — in Russian

Среди всего многообразия художников, стилей и эпох самой большой любовью Гончаровой было примитивное и народное искусство. У них с Ларионовым даже собралась собственная коллекция русских лубков и древних каменных скульптур, так называемых скифских баб. Эти самые «бабы», демонстрировавшие вечную окаменелость и архаическую застылость, регулярно появлялись на картинах художницы, и их специфические, словно вырубленные из дерева формы напоминали африканских идолов, которых примерно в то же самое время писал Пабло Пикассо.

В конце 1900-х – начале 1910-х годов Наталия Гончарова часто обращалась к библейским темам, которые воплощала на холсте языком новейшей живописи. И здесь также появляется почти буквальное воспроизведение этих древних скульптур.

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Сюжетной основой композиции «Соляные столпы» послужила история о Лоте. Однако художница не следует Библии буквально – там в столп превратилась лишь жена Лота. В картине же Гончаровой все участники сцены представлены окаменевшими соляными фигурами, замершими на фоне пылающих развалин Содома и Гоморры. В их трактовке применен принцип кубистической огранки формы, тот же, что использовался ею при изображении скифских каменных баб, которых Гончарова считала первыми кубистическими скульптурами.

Tretyakov Gallery

Particulars

c. 1910
18811962
Accession number
Ж-1579

In the catalog

Drawings & watercolorsOilModernism20th century

Sources

  • Tretyakov Gallery
  • Image: Tretyakov Gallery — © State Tretyakov Gallery

Meanwhile, in the life of Natalia Goncharova

The whole life
  1. 1909

    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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 1911

    Develops Rayonism with Larionov

    Goncharova and Larionov developed Rayonism and painted many works in the style (elsewhere Rayonism is dated 1912–1914).

  6. 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.

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Велосипедист

1913 · State Russian Museum

Spanish Dancer, Natalia Goncharova, 1920s

Spanish Dancer

1920s · Art Institute of Chicago

Беление холста, Natalia Goncharova, 1908

Беление холста

1908 · State Russian Museum

Зима, Natalia Goncharova, 1911

Зима

1911 · State Russian Museum

Прачки, Natalia Goncharova, 1911

Прачки

1911 · State Russian Museum

Портрет М. Ф. Ларионова и его взводного, Natalia Goncharova, 1911

Портрет М. Ф. Ларионова и его взводного

1911 · State Russian Museum

Евангелисты. Тетраптих, Natalia Goncharova, 1911

Евангелисты. Тетраптих

1911 · State Russian Museum