Natalia Goncharova [June 4, 1881 - October 17, 1962]The Birth of Christ.1910.
Watercolor on paper, 23.9x29.8 cm.
Private collection, Moscow.
Goncharova was a prominent Russian avant-garde artist (Cubo-Futurism), painter and costume designer.
Her great-aunt was Natalia Pushkina, wife of the poet Alexander Pushkin
She was one of the main progenitors of the pre-Revolution Russian avant-garde
She moved to Paris in 1921 where she designed a number of stage sets of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
She became a French citizen in 1939.
In 1962 she died in Paris
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