Natalia GoncharovaRusia, 1881–1962Spanish Dancer
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Instituto de Arte de Chicago
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Natalia Goncharova first painted the subject of the Spanish dancer in 1916, while touring Spain as a set and costume designer with Sergei Diaghilev’s traveling ballet company, the Ballets Russes. In this painting, the artist depicted a costume featuring delicate transparencies of lace and floral patterns. Inspired by the local flamenco tradition, Goncharova translated the fabric’s radial lines into the axes formed by the dancer’s hands, which fan outward in geometric vectors, building upon the abstract-cubist style she had developed in Moscow the decade before. After her time in Spain, the artist wrote, “It seems to me that out of all the countries I have visited, this is the only one where there is some hidden energy.”
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- 1971.777
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Mientras tanto, en la vida de Natalia Goncharova
La vida entera1915–1962 · Residencia
Paris
May 1919
Settles in Paris for good
After years in Switzerland, Paris and Rome, Goncharova and Larionov settled in Paris for good (other sources say 1921). She later remarked: “I wanted to go East, and ended up in the West.”
1921
The Paris Salon d'Automne
Goncharova exhibited at the Salon d'Automne and from then on took part regularly in the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon des Indépendants.
1921
Illustrates “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”
The Paris publisher Éditions de la Sirène issued Pushkin's tale in Claude Anet's French translation with Goncharova's illustrations; “The Tale of Igor's Campaign” with her drawings followed in 1923.
1922–1926
Fashion designs for Maison Myrbor
For Marie Cuttoli's Paris shop Maison Myrbor on the Rue Vincent, Goncharova designed richly embroidered and appliquéd dresses inspired by Russian folk art, Byzantine mosaics and her work for the Ballets Russes.
June 1931
First solo exhibition abroad
Goncharova's first solo exhibition abroad opened in June 1931.
