INTERESTING PANEL "LA RONDE" by Nathalie GONTCHAROVA (1881-1 - Lot 147

INTERESTING PANEL "LA RONDE" by Nathalie GONTCHAROVA (1881-1962) Oil on canvas, monogrammed lower right. Circa 1910. The original certificates have been lost, but copies have been preserved. Attached is a copy of the certificate of authenticity from Monsieur Jean Chauvelin, dated November 6, 2007. A copy of Madame Denise Bazetoux's certificate of authenticity, dated December 2, 2007, is enclosed. A copy of Mr. René Guerra's certificate of authenticity, dated September 28, 2008, is enclosed. A copy of the historical report by Dr. Anthony Parton, dated January 22, 2009, is attached. A copy of the painting's analysis is attached. Appears in Dr. Anthony Parton's catalog raisonée, page 34 and in that of Mr. Jean Chauvelin and Mme Denise Bazetoux, page 249 n° 300 . Provenance: New York private collection Size: 79 x 119.5 cm. As is, minor chips/chips, old restoration This is one of the paintings on the theme of peasant women dancing in a circle that Goncharova produced in 1910. There is another painting in the Serphukhov Museum. Goncharova often painted one or more versions of the same subject. In the one at the Serphukhov Museum, we see only the five dancers, with a variation in the colors of the clothes, and the accordionist is not present. The painting in the museum measures 100 x 133 cm. In 1901, in Moscow, she studied sculpture with F. Volnoukhine and Paul Troubetzkoy (disciple of Auguste Rodin), and painting with Constantin Korovine. She gave up sculpture in 1904 and devoted herself to painting after meeting Michel Larionov, who was to be her lifelong companion. "Throughout their life together, they influenced each other and collaborated for a long time. Nevertheless, Natalia Goncharova's works are distinguished from those of her husband by their profusion of bright colors". After a transition from Impressionism to Cubism, her neo-primitivism from 1907 onwards was influenced by icons, Russian folk imagery (loubok), chromos and handmade signs. Christian and, more generally, religious or peasant themes dominated her work. In 1906, she took part in the Russian art exhibition organized by Serge de Diaghilev at the Salon d'Automne in Paris. In December 1909, at the third Golden Fleece exhibition, Larionov and Goncharova launched neo-primitivism. In December 1910, she took part with Larionov in the first Moscow exhibition of the Valet de Carreau.