Natalia Gontcharova's life in a year-by-year timeline dating from 1881 to 1962 and across locations stretching from the Russian countryside near Moscow to the heart of Paris.
June 28, 2024
From Tula to Paris
28June
January 30, 2018
One Does Not Understand Life Immediately
30January
From her time as an young outspoken shaker of the status quo in Moscow through to her eventual position as a respected and unique fixture of the art world in Paris, Natalia Gontcharova always had a way with words... here, for your reading pleasure, are a few of her most memorable thoughts in quotes...
January 29, 2018
We Stretch Out Our Hands To The Futurists
29January
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January 25, 2018
I Wish To Display My Artistic Development
25January
Throughout her career in both Russia and the West, Natalia Gontcharova showcased her work in a series of solo exhibitions beginning in 1910. Though solo in name - these exhibitions often also included collaborations with and works by Gontcharova's life-long creative and domestic partner, Mikhail Larionov.
January 25, 2018
I Destroy This Holy Of Holies
The term 'Anti-Individualist' is an unusual description for an artist, one that runs exactly contrary to the prevailing Individualism that runs throughout Modern Art. Yet 'The Anti-Individualist' is very much an accurate description of Natalia Gontcharova, one that might uniquely be applied only to her among her contemporaries in the modern art movement of the first part of the 20th century. She...
January 23, 2018
We Wish To Leave Deep Footprints Behind Us
23January
From her earliest days as a student in Moscow through to her final years in Paris, works by Natalia Gontcharova were included in group exhibitions around the world...
January 19, 2018
Beauty In The Fourth Dimension
19January
Natalia Gontcharova, perhaps above all else, was a spiritual painter. She created art according to her personal sense of modern devotion. She was pious, humble, charitable and obedient. This deep grounding in faith is present throughout her entire body of work but reveals itself in different ways at different stages of her life and career...
January 9, 2018
I Am Opening Up The East
09January
“Now I shake the dust from my feet and leave the West, considering its vulgarizing significance trivial and unimportant - my path is toward the source of all arts, the East.” What does Gontcharova mean here when she refers to the East?
December 22, 2017
We Demand A Knowledge Of Painterly Craftsmanship
22December
A wide-ranging list of sources for further research into the life & works of Natalia Gontcharova in the worlds of art, literature, fashion, ballet & beyond...
December 15, 2017
Do Not Ever Destroy Your Paintings
15December
In the world of Natalia Gontcharova, the seemingly simple act of dating a piece of her artwork is often made even more challenging by a combination of additional factors, not the least of which was her usual habit of not dating her works at their creation...