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Spaightwood Galleries
120 Main street, UPton MA 01568-6193
Nataliya Goncharova (Russian, 1881-1962)
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Goncharova and her lifelong companion Mikhail Larionov were among the leading members of the pre-Revolutionary Russian avant-garde. As Mary Chamont has noted, "The decade before the Russian Revolution was one of intense activity in the Moscow art world. Larionov and Goncharova were among the prime movers of this outburst, when young artists were full of new ideas. They met, organized exhibitions of their work, usually financed by some rich merchant, then fell apart with violent quarrels, only to form new combinations with different objectives and other patrons" (Goncharova: Stage Designs and Paintings, 8). Moving from an art that blended Russian folk-motifs with Fauvist colors, Larionov and Goncharova, who eventually married in 1955, were involved in the Knave of Diamonds Group, The Donkey's Tail exhibition of 1912, and the Target exhibition of 1913 at which they proclaimed Rayonism, one of the earliest Russian abstract movements. In 1914, Larionov and Goncharova went to Paris with Diaghilev's Ballet Russes. They returned to Russia right before World War I broke out. Larionov served in the army, was wounded, and, after being sent home, he and Goncharova left Russia permanently in 1915, staying in Switzerland briefly before returning to Paris in 1919. Their most productive years were devoted to designing for the Ballet Russes and for Lord Berners. Larionov and Goncharova were the subjects of joint retrospectives in London and Paris before his death; Goncharova has been the subject of a number of exhibitions, including a group show of Russian women avant-garde artists at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice during the Spring of 1990.
Select Bibliography: Anthony Parton, Mikhail Larionov and the Russian Avant-Garde (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993); John E. Bowlt, ed., Amazons of the Avant-Garde: Alexandra Exter, Natalia Goncharova, Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova, Varvara Stepanova, and Nadezhda Udaltsova (NY: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2003); Mary Chamont, Goncharova: Stage Designs and Paintings (London: Oresko, 1979); Francois Daulte and Jean Goldman, Larionov / Goncharova (Bruxelles: Musée d'Ixelles, 1976: Texts by the artists and Guillaume Apollinaire); Waldemar George, Larionov (Paris, Bibliotheque des Arts, 1996); Yevgeny Kovtun, Mikhail Larionov 1881 - 1964 (Bournemouth: Parkstone, 1998); Mordechai Omer, Dorit Yifat, & Jane Sharp, Natalia Goncharova - a Pioneer of the Russian Avant-Garde (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2000); Yevgenia Petrova, Natalia Goncharova: The Russian Years (Palace Editions with The Academic Council of The State Russian Museum, 2002); Gleb G. Pospelov et al, Natalija Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov (Milan: Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta, 1996); Jane Sharp, Russian Modernism between East and West Natalia Goncharova and the Moscow Avant-Garde (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006); Arturo Schwartz, Larionov / Goncharova: Mostra collettiva (Milano: Galleria Schwarz, 1961).
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Classical-Cubist Head. Original watercolor, c. 1913-1916. Initialed upper left within the image with the brush; initialed verso in pencil. Colors fresh and rich. In this watercolor, Goncharova allows us the choice of seeing the head as a fairly traditional 3/4 view or as a modernist work that offers multiple possible ways of seeing the head including overlapping views composed both of shadows and of colored washes. In the past 2 years, prices for Goncharova's works have risen substantially. Over 9 of her paintings have sold for over one million doallars since June 2007, reaching $9, 645, 160 at Christie's London 6/24/08 and $8, 647, 480 at Christie's London on 6/18/07. Prices of her drawings are strong as well, with a high of $162,221 at Bonham's London on 5/31/07. Our watercolor is a superb work by this very important artist showing her exploration of Parisian modernism. Image size: 270x190mm. Price: $50,000.
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Abstract Composition. Original watercolor, c. 1913-1914. Signed upper right within the image with the brush. Colors fresh. In the past 2 years, prices for Goncharova's works have risen substantially. Over 9 of her paintings have sold for over one million doallars since June 2007, reaching $9,645, 160 at Christie's London 6/24/08 and $8,647, 480 at Christie's London on 6/18/07. Prices of her drawings are strong as well, with a high of $162,221 at Bonham's London on 5/31/07. Image size: 290x205mm. Price: SOLD.
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Spaightwood Galleries, Inc.
To purchase, call us at 1-800-809-3343 (508-529-2511 in Upton MA & vicinity) or send an email to sptwd@verizon.net. We accept AmericanExpress, DiscoverCard, MasterCard, and Visa.
For directions and visiting information, please call. We are, of course, always available over the web and by telephone (see above for contact information). Click the following for links to past shows and artists. For a visual tour of the gallery, please click here. For information about Andy Weiner and Sonja Hansard-Weiner, please click here. For a list of special offers currently available, see Specials.
Visiting hours: Saturday and Sunday noon to 6 pm and other times by arrangement. Please call to confirm your visit. Browsers and guests are welcome.
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