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Historical Artist - Natalia Goncharova (1881 - 1962)
Natalia Gontcharova studied sculpture at the Moscow Academy of Art, but turned to painting in
1904. She was deeply inspired by the primitive aspects of Russian folk art and attempted to
emulate it in her own work while incorporating elements of Fauvism and Cubism. Gontcharova was a
member of the Der Blaue Reiter avant-garde group from its founding in 1911. In 1915, she began
to design ballet costumes and sets in Geneva and then moved to Paris in 1921 to continue her
theatre work. On June 18, 2007
Goncharova's 1909 painting Picking Apples was auctioned at Christie's for $9.8 million, setting
a record for any female artist. The record was updated a year later, when Goncharova's 1912
still-life The Flowers (formerly part of Guillaume Apollinaire's collection) sold for $10.8
million.
Contemporary Russian Artists
Art Galleries in Russia
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