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Natalia Gontcharova
"The theatrical costume is the detail that speaks to understand, explains the character before speaking, singing or moving."
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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Natalia Gontcharova meurt à Paris d’un cancer le 17 Octobre 1962. Cinq jours plus tard, elle sera inhumée dans la section russe du cimetière d’Ivry-sur-Seine (Division 7, rangée 1, tombe 14). Mikhail Larinov, qui fut son mari, la rejoignit deux ans plus tard. Une même épitaphe est inscrite sous leur deux noms : “Artiste, Peintre”. Sur leur tombe, une fleur blanche.
"En Italie, où tout art moderne est absent, est né le futurisme, c’est-à-dire l’art de l’avenir : mélange de l’impressionnisme et du nationalisme." - Natalia Gontcharova
"Nous sommes le visage de notre temps. Le passé est étroit. L’Académie et Pouchkine sont plus incompréhensibles que les hiéroglyphes…" - Bourliouk, Kroutchenykh, Maïakovski (ici représenté) et Khlebnikov (1913)
"Il est question de découvrir la peinture comme but en soi et non comme moyen d'expression" - Mikhail Larionov
"…rien d'utopique dans cet " art de gauche " russe et soviétique : tout simplement un sommet de la création humaine, un moment privilégié, miraculeux, l'alliance d'un primitivisme vigoureux, d'une abstraction fondée sur l'énergie colorée et la solidité de la composition et d'une subtilité conceptuelle sans égale. " - J.-C. Marcadé
"Inspirées par la vie paysanne, les oeuvres de Gontcharova et de Malévitch marquent une recherche de style vigoureux, sans aucune naïveté." - Eugénie De Keyser
"Parmi l’avant-garde russe, le néo-primitivisme se veut l’illustration nationale de l’expressionnisme de l’époque : les artistes, parmi lesquels Natalia Gontcharova, mêlent les syntaxes européennes à des thématiques populaires." - Adrien Grimmeau
Notes of biography
The daughter of an architect, Sergueïvna Natalia Gontcharova is born in Nagaïevo in Russia in 1881. She grows up in the countryside with her grandmother. From her childhood, she always remembers the rural life and farm work as well as a great interest in rural customs. Natalia Gontcharova follows art classes at the School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Moscow from 1901 to 1909. There she meets the painter Mikhail Larionov who becomes her companion (They married in 1955), his name is inseparable from that of her future husband.
From 1906 to 1912, looking for concrete forms and simplified lines, she paints neo primitiviste canvases. She mainly deals with themes of rural life and religious painting. From 1907, she participates in associations and major exhibitions of Russian avant-garde, « La Guirlande-Stephanos », « La Toison d’or », « Le Valet de Carreau » (Larionov, Kazimir Malevitch and Vladimir Tatlin, 1910), « La Queue d’âne », « la Cible » (1914). In 1912, Gontcharova participates with her husband at the second exhibition of the Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) in Munich. She signs in 1913, the manifesto of the rayonnism. These religious paintings, considered blasphemous by their free treatment and colors, are censored.
From 1912, the artist paints works of futurist and radiant paintings, which tend to abstraction. She illustrates the poets of this movement, publishes a portfolio of lithographs ("Mystical Images of War"). Natalia Gontcharova leaves Russia permanently in 1915 for Switzerland, and then moves to Paris. She devotes herself, until 1929, to the creation of sets and costumes for Diaghilev's Russian Ballets, and for theater and opera. She attends regularly at the Salon of Independents and Salon of Autumn in 1922.
Between 1926 and 1929, the artist gets a large number of works that had been seized in Russia during her departure. She realizes, in the early 30s, illustrations for "Le Populaire" newspaper of the Socialist Party. Gontcharova returns to a more figurative painting with a series of still lifes (Magnolias) and Spanish. With the war the couple falls into oblivion and separates.
In 1948 Michel Seuphor organizes a retrospective exhibition Goncharova- Larionov in Paris.
Alongside the artistic community in Paris, poor, Natalia Gontcharova dies in Paris in 1962.
Artists on display
The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
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*« Natalia Gontcharova, son œuvre, entre tradition et modernité », D. Bazetoux, vol. I, Ed. Avril Graphique, 2011 All the complete worksBibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Les Ballets russes de S. Diaghilev » Ed. Pierre Vorms, G. Billiert, Paris 1930
- « G.-L. : 50 ans à St Germain-des-Prés », T. Loguine, Ed. Klincksieck, 1971
- N. Gontcharova, sa vie, son œuvre », Tsvétaeva Marina, Ed. Clémence Hiver, 1990
- « N. Gontcharova et Larionov », J. Boissel et autres, M.N.A.M. Pompidou, 1995
- « N. Gontcharova, M. Larionov », I. Zdanevitch (E. Eganebry), Ed. Clémence Hiver, 1995
- « Gontcharova », Mary Chamot, Ed. La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1996
- « N. Gontcharova », collectif, Ed. Hatje Cantz, 2010
- « N. G.- M. L. : Oeuvres rayonnistes », cat., Ed. Galerie Lucie Weil C. Zalber, 2011
- « Expressionismus & ...- Der blaue Reiter », coll., cat., Pinacothèque de Paris, 2011
- « Revolution in Russian Painting 1895-1917 », coll., cat., Musée de Maastricht, 2013
To read from the artist :
- « Journal secret de N. Gontcharova » Récit-Fiction, C. Barreau Ed. L Teper, 2006
- « The art and design of N. Gontcharova », A. Parton, ACC Art Books, 2010
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
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A tribute to Natalia Gontcharova
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Natalia Gontcharova meurt à Paris d’un cancer le 17 Octobre 1962. Cinq jours plus tard, elle sera inhumée dans la section russe du cimetière d’Ivry-sur-Seine (Division 7, rangée 1, tombe 14). Mikhail Larinov, qui fut son mari, la rejoignit deux ans plus tard. Une même épitaphe est inscrite sous leur deux noms : “Artiste, Peintre”. Sur leur tombe, une fleur blanche.
"En Italie, où tout art moderne est absent, est né le futurisme, c’est-à-dire l’art de l’avenir : mélange de l’impressionnisme et du nationalisme." - Natalia Gontcharova
"Nous sommes le visage de notre temps. Le passé est étroit. L’Académie et Pouchkine sont plus incompréhensibles que les hiéroglyphes…" - Bourliouk, Kroutchenykh, Maïakovski (ici représenté) et Khlebnikov (1913)
"Il est question de découvrir la peinture comme but en soi et non comme moyen d'expression" - Mikhail Larionov
"…rien d'utopique dans cet " art de gauche " russe et soviétique : tout simplement un sommet de la création humaine, un moment privilégié, miraculeux, l'alliance d'un primitivisme vigoureux, d'une abstraction fondée sur l'énergie colorée et la solidité de la composition et d'une subtilité conceptuelle sans égale. " - J.-C. Marcadé
"Inspirées par la vie paysanne, les oeuvres de Gontcharova et de Malévitch marquent une recherche de style vigoureux, sans aucune naïveté." - Eugénie De Keyser
"Parmi l’avant-garde russe, le néo-primitivisme se veut l’illustration nationale de l’expressionnisme de l’époque : les artistes, parmi lesquels Natalia Gontcharova, mêlent les syntaxes européennes à des thématiques populaires." - Adrien Grimmeau
Art movements
+ RAYONNISM / 1909 / Wladimir Burliuk, Mikhaïl Ledentu, etc.
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