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GONCHAROVA RUSSIAN ART POSTER DRAFT

GONCHAROVA, Natalya Sergeevna (1881-1962). Draft of a poster for Manuel de Falla "El Amor Bruje."

c. 1925. Mixed media (ink, watercolor, oil and color pencils) on paper (335 x 232 mm). Initialed lower right and stamped "NG" on the reverse. Provenance: Exhibited: "A World of Stage" April-October 2007, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, no. 148, illus. on p. 137. drawing of an espagnole in a typical design of Goncharova from the 1920s both in terms of subject and style. Goncharova and Larionov were prominent figures in the pre-Revolutionary Moscow avant-garde, a circle in which women commanded an unusual degree of freedom and respect. Goncharova was a radical both in art and life. She and Larionov lived together for decades as an unmarried couple. (They finally married in 1955 to ensure that whoever survived the other could inherit his or her paintings.) We are grateful to Dr. Anthony Parton for his assistance in the cataloguing of this lot.