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Natalia Sergeevna GONCHAROVA (1880-1962) Grand bou

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Natalia Sergeevna GONCHAROVA (1880-1962) Grand bouquet de fleurs des champs, Huile sur toile, monogrammée en haut à gauche et signée en bas à droite, 55 x 38 cm - 213/4 x 15 in. Bouquet of flowers Oil on canvas, monogrammed upper left and signed lower left Provenance : Ancienne collection de Maître Paul Szigeti, ami et avocat de Mikhaïl Larionov et de Natalia Goncharova. Héritiers de Maître Paul Szigeti. Previous Collection of Paul Szigeti, friend and Lowyer of Natalia Goncharova heirs of Paul Szigeti; Our present works were created by the artist during her Parisian period. In 1918, Goncharova moved permanently to Paris with her longtime companion, husband and fellow artist, Mikhaïl Larionov. The couple integrated effortlessly into the Parisian artistic scene, most likely due to the great success they shared while designing the costumes and sets for impresario Sergei Diaghilev's Russian Ballets. These two works characterize the influence of Purism on the artist, a movement that was born from a call to order of the social and political life in Europe following the war. The main aesthetic and ideological tenets of Purism were precision, simplicity, and harmony. The movement furthermore encouraged its adherents to study the forms of objects more closely. Goncharova's bouquets of flowers attain this harmony and precision and above all portray the unmistakable influence of Cézanne, who was admired by the Purist group for having founded a "French tradition of painting". However, Goncharova's appreciation of Cézanne was not newly developed; works by the artist had been exhibited to the public as early as 1903 in Gontcharova's native Moscow in the private homes of the preeminent collectors Ivan Morozov and Sergei Shchukin. Perhaps we can therefore consider these works to be a sort of homage to the father of modern art aptly created during the period of Goncharova's immersion into the French lifestyle and culture.

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