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NATALIA GONTCHAROVA LADYJINO, 1881 – PARIS, 1962
Vase of Cor…
See original version (French)
38
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NATALIA GONTCHAROVA LADYJINO, 1881 – PARIS, 1962
Vase of Cor…
See original version (French)
Estimate €100,000 - €125,000
Voluntary lot
Description
NATALIA GONTCHAROVA
LADYJINO, 1881 – PARIS, 1962
Vase of Cornflowers
Circa 1960
Oil on canvas
63 x 49 cm
Monogrammed ‘N. G.’ in Latin in the lower left-hand corner
Provenance
Artist’s studio, Paris; Alexandra Tomilina, c. 1965;
Private collection, Paris, in the 1960s–1980s.
Bibliography
Denise Bazetoux, Catalogue Raisonné, Natalia Gontcharova, her work between tradition and
modernity – Volume 1 – No. 1301, illustrated in colour on p. 384 (error regarding the dimensions
in the catalogue raisonné).
Certificate
Jean Chauvelin, Paris.
They have the colour of cornflowers, but it is from sunflowers that these flowers derive their appearance,
with their regular rows of petals crowning broad pistils. Whether they turn
their broad corollas towards us or present their undersides, these heavy heads, swollen with stamens,
bend their stems out of the vase that holds them, not without difficulty. One of them has,
in fact, fallen onto the table amidst a few petals. The serrated leaves that
accompany them add their own abundance to the bouquet’s radiant composition. Blue
are these flowers, but blue too is the vase that holds them, thus offering a harmonious monochrome
punctuated here and there with touches of violet. But it is the background of the composition that lends a
modern feel to this conventional subject. Radiating out from the bouquet, regular brushstrokes
form a geometric pattern dominated by shades of white that soften those
of the bouquet. The flowers thus seem to radiate an iridescent light. This geometrisation
of the background’s brushwork invites us to view the corollas as a series of ellipses or
discs that echo this chequered pattern. The linework becomes a motif, thus recalling Rayonism,
of which Natalia Goncharova was the pioneer at the start of her career.
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