Natalia Goncharova
Russia (1881—1962)Born to a wealthy family, she studied painting and sculpture in Moscow. Here she met Mikhail Larionov, who became her lifelong partner and encouraged her to favour painting over sculpture. She exhibited at the Salon d’Automne in 1906 in Paris with the support of Sergei Diaghilev. In 1910 she founded Jack of Diamonds and in 1912 exhibited with Der Blaue Reiter. A year later, she and Larionov left to set up the group Donkey’s Tail, with Marc Chagall and Malevich, favouring Russian subjects. In the same year, she joined Hylaea, a Russian Futurist group which inspired her and Larionov to found Rayonism the following year. In 1914 they moved to Paris, where she also worked on stage design for the Russian Ballet.
