Lot 214
  • 214

Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova, 1881-1962

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova
  • a group of 8 lithographs from La Cité
  • each signed with initials in Latin in the plate and further signed in full l.l.
  • lithograph on paper
  • each sheet: 230 by 145mm., 9 by 5¾in.

Provenance

Professor N.L.Okunev, Prague
Thence by decent

Literature

Ye. Petrova (ed.), Russian Futurism and David Burliuk, the Father of Russian Futurism, St. Petersburg, Palace Edition, 2000, another set ill. plates 144-148

Condition

Some of the sheets are roughly cut with creases to the edges. There are slight spots of staining. Unframed.
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Catalogue Note

In 1920, following her emigration to Paris, Goncharova created the illustrations for La Cité, a collection of poems by Alexander Roubakin which had as its main theme modern urban life.