Gorod: Stikhi (The City: Verses), 1920
Lithographs and lithographed text; bound volumeexpand_more
Gift of Ruth and Bruce Daytonexpand_more B.89.2
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Natalia Goncharova permanently settled in Paris in 1917 along with her companion, the Russian avant-garde painter Mikhail Larionov. Her evocative illustrations for “The City” reflect her artistic evolution from Neo-Primitivism and Futurism to a theatrical lyricism, derived from her work as a stage designer for the renowned Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev.
Aleksandr Rubakin’s romanticized poems about Paris chronicle the city as it evolves into a modern urban center. Together, the poems and illustrations present a vision of a dynamic, vital metropolis—exciting, full of movement, and encompassing the human and emotional elements of modern city life.
Details
- Title
- Gorod: Stikhi (The City: Verses)
- Artist Life
- Russian, 1881–1962
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- B.89.2
- Provenance
- (Elizabeth Phillips, New York City, via 1989 MIA Print & Drawing Council Exhibtion & Sale; no. 80); sold to MIA, 1989.
- Catalogue Raisonne
- V&A 58; Rowell/Wye 292; Logan/Johnson p. 97
- Curator Approved
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