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Natalia Gontcharova
Natalia Gontcharova was born in Russia in 1881. She studied sculpture at the Moscow Academy of Art , but turned to painting in 1904. She was deeply inspired by the primitive aspects of Russian folk art and attempted to emulate it in her own work while incorporating elements of fauvism and cubism.
Gontcharova was a member of the Der Blaue Reiter avant-garde group from its founding in 1911. In 1915, she began to design ballet costumes and sets in Geneva. She moved to Paris in 1921 where she designed a number of stage sets of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
In 1962 she died in Paris.
Categories: 1881 births | 1962 deaths | Russian artists | Russian painters | Costume designers | Women in art
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