Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

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Description

Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova
Costume Design for a Spanish Woman for Espagne or Triana
variously inscribed in Cyrillic
pencil on tracing paper
75 by 55.5cm, 29 1/2 by 21 3/4 in.

Provenance

Lefebvre-Foinet Collection

Catalogue Note

Goncharova’s Spanish costume designs are a successful marriage of her neo-primitivist style with a strikingly modern Cubo-futurist aesthetic. In Costume Design for Spanish Woman for Espagne or Triana she makes use of oversized fans, mantillas and lace shawls to build up the composition in overlapping layers. The floral embroidery adds decorative interest and contrasts with the geometric shapes and sharp, linear folds of the fans which create a repetitive rhythm and are suggestive of movement.