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LARIONOV, Mikhail Fedorovich (1881-1964). Woman w

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Ink and watercolor on paper (235 x 305 mm). Initialed lower right. Matted and framed. a wonderful example of larionov's typically wry and engaging humor. Depicts a woman with a distended belly (perhaps pregnant) releasing one bird as it takes flight and with her other hand clutching a protesting and sanguinary second bird. Larionov greatly valued the appearance of chance in his drawings, as an expression of spontaneity in the creative process. This peculiarity in his work was noted by David Burliuk in 1912, who compared it to the poetic principles of Khlebnikov: "M. Larionov's soldier pictures represent the best examples of free drawing.an analogy in poetry would be vers libre, of which the only and the finest representative in modern poetry is Viktor (Velimir) Khlebnikov."

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