Natalia Goncharova (Russian, 1881-1962)

Biography

Integral to the Jack of Diamonds group, a radical figure in the Russian avant-garde, a spectacular set and costume designer for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, Natalia Goncharova (also Nathalie Gontcharova, Russian: Наталья Сергеевна Гончарова) was one of the most important 20th-century Russian artists. Goncharova was born in Tula, a town in western Russia around 200 kilometres south of Moscow. Her family relocated to Moscow in 1892, intending to improve their financial situation. Goncharova studied history, biology, and botany at school, but she finally opted to pursue art and enrolled in the Moscow Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1898. At the institute, she met Mikhail Larionov, a famous Russian avant-gardist who would become her lifelong companion. Their lives and practices progressed in unison, with each guiding and encouraging the other as they ventured into new artistic territory.

Related artists

Jeanne Coppel / Georges Pogedaieff

Available works

Please see below the selection of available original artworks by Natalia Goncharova.

Natalia Goncharova, Set design for Le Coq d'Or by Rimsky-Korsakov for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, 1914. Gouache on paper, 46.4 by 57.2 cm

Natalia Goncharova, Set design for Le Coq d'Or by Rimsky-Korsakov for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, 1914. Gouache on paper, 46.4 by 57.2 cm

Natalia Goncharova, Set design for Le Coq d'Or by Rimsky-Korsakov for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, 1914. Gouache on paper, 46.4 by 57.2 cm

Natalia Goncharova, Set design for Le Coq d'Or by Rimsky-Korsakov for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, 1914. Gouache on paper, 46.4 by 57.2 cm

Natalia Goncharova, Peasant Woman (costume design for the 1914 Ballet Russes production of Coq d'Or), c.1914. Graphite pencil on paper. 22,6 by 16,5 cm. Sold

Natalia Goncharova, Peasant Woman (costume design for the 1914 Ballet Russes production of Coq d'Or), c.1914. Graphite pencil on paper. 22,6 by 16,5 cm. Sold

Natalia Goncharova, Costume study for a dancer in the ballet ‘Coup de Bambou’. Pencil, watercolour and ink on paper. 31 by 19 cm. Sold

Natalia Goncharova, Costume study for a dancer in the ballet ‘Coup de Bambou’. Pencil, watercolour and ink on paper. 31 by 19 cm. Sold

Natalia Goncharova, Costume study for a dancer in the ballet ‘Coup de Bambou’. Pencil, watercolour and ink on paper. 31 by 19 cm. Sold

Natalia Goncharova, Costume study for a dancer in the ballet ‘Coup de Bambou’. Pencil, watercolour and ink on paper. 31 by 19 cm. Sold