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1912

Works in the “Tower” studio

She works in a Moscow studio known as “The Tower” with Ivan Aksenov and Vladimir Tatlin, and visits Sergei Shchukin’s collection of modern French paintings.

1912–1913

Studies in Paris under Le Fauconnier and Metzinger

She attends the studios of the Cubist painters Henri Le Fauconnier and Jean Metzinger at the Académie de La Palette in Paris, studying alongside Nadezhda Udaltsova.

1912–1913

Meets Archipenko and Zadkine

In Paris she meets Alexander Archipenko and, in 1913, Ossip Zadkine.

1913

Returns to Russia and works with Tatlin

After returning to Russia that same year she works with Tatlin, Udaltsova and the Vesnin brothers.

1914–1916

Takes part in the avant-garde exhibitions

Together with Aleksandra Ekster, Nadezhda Udaltsova and Olga Rozanova she contributes to the “Knave of Diamonds” exhibitions, to “Tramway V” in Petrograd, to “0.10” and to “The Store”; at “0.10” she shows several figurative painted cardboard reliefs in a Cubist-derived style.

1916

Joins Malevich’s group “Supremus”

She joins Kazimir Malevich’s group Supremus; together with Aleksandra Ekster, Ivan Kliun, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Olga Rozanova, Ivan Puni, Nina Genke, Ksenia Boguslavskaya and others she works at the Verbovka village folk centre.