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Natalia Goncharova

Natalia Sergeyevna Goncharova
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Goncharova in 1910
Born (1881-06-21)June 21, 1881
Nagaevo, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire
Died October 17, 1962(1962-10-17) (aged 81)
Paris, France
Nationality Russian, French (since 1938)
Education Moscow Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
Known for Painting, costume design, writer, illustrator, set designer

Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova (Russian: Ната́лья Серге́евна Гончаро́ва; IPA: [nɐˈtalʲjə sʲɪrˈɡʲejɪvnə ɡəntɕɐˈrovə]; June 21, 1881 – October 17, 1962) was a Russian avant-garde artist, painter, costume designer, writer, illustrator, and set designer.

Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova was born on June 21, 1881, in Nagaevo (now in the Chernsky District of Tula Oblast). Her father, Sergei, was an architect and graduate of the prestigious Moscow Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Goncharova moved to Moscow at the age of 10, in 1892, graduating from the Fourth Women's Gymnasium in 1898.

In 1901 Goncharova began her own studies at the Moscow Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture as a sculptor, under Pavel Trubetskoi, who was associated with the World of Art movement. By 1903, she began exhibiting in major Russian salons. She was awarded a silver medal for sculpture in 1903-04. It was at the Moscow Institute that Goncharova met fellow-student Mikhail Larionov, and not long afterwards they began sharing a studio and living space. She withdrew from the Moscow Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1909, and in 1910, after a number of students were expelled from Konstantin Korovin's portrait class for imitating the contemporary style of European Modernism, Goncharova, Larionov, Robert Falk, Pyotr Konchalovsky, Alexander Kuprin, Ilya Mashkov and others formed Moscow's first radical independent exhibiting group, the Jack of Diamonds.


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