Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov was a Russian avant-garde painter who worked with radical exhibitors and pioneered the first approach to abstract Russian art. His lifelong partner was fellow avant-garde artist, Natalia Goncharova.
Larionov c. 1916–1917
Acacias in Spring (1904)
Self-Portrait (1910)
’’Study of the woman’’ (1912)
Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova was a Russian avant-garde artist, painter, costume designer, writer, illustrator, and set designer. Goncharova's lifelong partner was fellow Russian avant-garde artist Mikhail Larionov. She was a founding member of both the Jack of Diamonds (1909–1911), Moscow's first radical independent exhibiting group, the more radical Donkey's Tail (1912–1913), and with Larionov invented Rayonism (1912–1914). She was also a member of the German-based art movement Der Blaue Reiter. Born in Russia, she moved to Paris in 1921 and lived there until her death.
Goncharova in 1910
Goncharova and other artists at a Donkey's Tail exhibition, 1912
Rayonist Lilies, 1913
Portrait of Natalia Goncharova by Mikhail Larionov (1915)