Nagaevo, Tula Province 1881-1962 Paris
Like
many of her fellow artists, Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova attended the
Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture (1901-1909),
where she studied in the department or sculpture with S.M. Volnukhin
and R.R. Trubetskoi. She indcpendeiitly learned to paint with the advice
of K. A. Korovin and under the tutelage of M.F. Larionov in Moscow
before she moved to Paris in 1915. Goncharova was one of the organizers
of the first Jack of Diamonds exhibition (1910) and of the later
exhibitions Donkey Tail (1912), Target (1913), and No. 4. Futurists,
Rayonists, Primitive (1914). She also participated in the exhibitions
The Wreath-Stefanos (1907-1908), The Golden Fleece (1908-1910), and
those sponsored by the Union of Youth (1910-1913) and World of Art
(1911-1913). Her work underwent a complex development, from
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism through variations of Cubism and
Fauvism (primitivism) to Futurism and the beginnings of non-objective
art. A follower of M. F. Larionov's "rayonism" theory, the
artist created landscapes, portraits, and genre scenes. Goncharova was
also famed as an artist of the alter scenes, who worked from 1914 to
1929 with S. K. Diaghilev.
