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MIKHAIL LARIONOV 1881-1964
Tiraspol 1881 - Fontenay-Aux-Roses/Paris 1964 (Russian)
Title: Kikimora, from "L’Art Décoratif Théâtral Moderne", 1919
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Dated Lithograph on paper
Size: 50 x 32.3 cm / 19.7 x 12.7 in
Additional Information: The work is hand signed in pencil "M. Larionov" in the lower right part and dated "1916" beside the signature. The work is also signed in the plate with the monogram "M. L." in the upper right part.
It is part of Larionov and Gontcharova's important portfolio "L’Art Décoratif Théâtral Moderne" that was published by Valentin Parnakh
Paris, Édition "La Cible," in 1919. The portfolio was published in a limited but unsigned edition of 515 copies.
Our work is however one of a few rare proofs, which were exceptionally signed by the artist.
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Mikhail Larionov and Nataliya Gonchorova, two artists of the Russian Avant-Garde who had met as students and worked in partnership ever since, began designing sets and costumes for the Ballets Russes in Switzerland in 1915. This was a development that had been years in the making. As the artists had, over the years, combined a futurist style with a neo-primitivist nod toward their Eastern European origins, they had also begun to push their artwork past the boundaries of traditional media and into a hybrid of painting, performance, manifesto, film, and fashion.
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Therefore, when the artists began to work for Serge Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes, their impact was substantial and immediate. Their melding of traditional Russian styles with avant-garde abstraction came to life in the form of elaborate headdresses, brilliantly coloured fabrics, and geometric costumes that were at times so elaborate as to restrict the dancers’ movement.
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The drawings for the costume designs were remarkable enough to themselves become the centrepieces of several exhibitions, including one in 1919 at the Galerie Barbazanges in Paris. It was in conjunction with this exhibition that L’art décoratif théâtral moderne was published. The highlight of this publication was a set of pochoir prints that featured, most notably, Larionov’s designs for the ballet Histoires Naturelles. These designs moved the concept of costume entirely out of the utilitarian realm: meant to evoke mechanical toys, they were angular, rigid, and entirely untraditional.
Provenance: Galerie Le Minotaure, Paris. The work is accompanied by their certificate of authenticity.
Condition: Very good condition. Very light surface dirt.
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