Mikhail Fedorovich Larionov

Collection Boris Tcherkinsky, Paris
Thence by descent

Leeds et al, A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Designs for the Theatre: Larionov and Goncharova, 1961 not listed in the exhibition catalogue
Paris, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris,  Gontcharova/Larionov, September - November 1963, No.108 titled Nu

Exhibition catalogue Gontcharva/Larionov, Paris: Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, 1963, listed No.108 dated 1910

There are a few minor pinholes to the sheet in places. There is some very minor undulation to the sheet in places. Held in a simple black frame behind glass. Unexamined out of frame. There is a small chip to the top left corner of the frame.
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By adopting the stylistic conventions and the manner of naïve painters, children's drawings and indigenous Russian art forms such as the icon and the lubok, Mikhail Larionov attempted to create works infused with an innocence of vision and vitality of expression. The offered work relates closely to the artist's early Neo-Primitivist period and in particular his series of thirty-two gouaches, Voyage en Turquie, which were conceived in 1906-7 and painted in 1907-9.

This simple and bold composition of this standing figure recalls the nudes from the series, which were inspired by the prehistoric statuettes of the Cucuteni peoples who inhabited the Dnestr Valley where Larionov's native Tiraspol is situated.