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Sketch-book

  • Object:

    Sketch-book

  • Date:

    ca. 1917-1918 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Natalia Goncharova, born 1881 - died 1962 (artist)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    black chalk and brush with lilac ink

  • Museum number:

    E.899-1961

  • Gallery location:

    Prints & Drawings Study Room, level D, case 94, shelf D, box 72

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Physical description

Bound sketch-book containing fourteen sheets of slightly bluish paper with drawings in black chalk and some in lilac ink.
Contents: p. 1: Portrait of a man holding a cigarette; p. 2: Officer in profile; p. 3: Portrait of a man in military uniform with decoration; p. 4: Portrait of a man in military uniform with decoration; p. 5: Sketch of a woman in Spanish costume; p. 6: Sketch of a woman rapped in a shawl; p. 7: Woman in Spanish costume with a house and tree in the background; p. 8: Rough sketch of a head in cubist style; p. 9: Woman in Spanish costume, with abbreviated notes on the colours in Russian; p. 10: Woman in Spanish costume; p. 11: Seated woman in profile with the Eiffel Tower and a tree in the background; p. 12: Sketch of the Eiffel Tower; p. 13: Portrait of a man [Vladimir Mayakovaky] with the Eiffel Tower in the background; p. 14: Town landscape with a bridge.
All drawings are in black chalk, except the drawings on pp. 5-7 which are in brush with lilac ink.

Date

ca. 1917-1918 (made)

Artist/maker

Natalia Goncharova, born 1881 - died 1962 (artist)

Materials and Techniques

black chalk and brush with lilac ink

Marks and inscriptions

p. 12: Gontcharowa
p. 13: H, N. Gontcharowa 'N'
p. 14: H 'N'

Dimensions

Height: 20.5 cm, Length: 27 cm

Object history note

The drawings on pages 1-4 appear to represent the poet Nikolay Gumilev (1886-1921) who served in the French army in 1917 and when staying in Paris during this period was a frequent guest of Goncharova and Larionov. A portrait drawing of him similar to these sketches but made by Larionov apparently at the same time is reproduced in T. Loguine, Gontcharova et Larionov, fig. 10. This suggests 1917-18 as the date for the sketch-book as a whole.

Descriptive line

Sketch-book by Natalia Goncharova; ca. 1917-1918.

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Salmina-Haskell, L., Catalogue of Russian Drawings, London: V & A, 1972, p. 21, cat. 66.

Subjects depicted

Costume; Portrait; Bridge; Uniform; Head; Town; Officer; Cigarette; Eiffel tower; Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Categories

Drawings

Production Type

Unique

Collection code

PDP

Qr_O192962
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