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A PAIR OF CHILDRENS COLLAGES FROM THE FUTURIST EXHIBITION MISHEN [THE TARGET] ORGANIZED BY LARIONOV, 1912
comprising:
a) Children`s Winter Landscape, circa 1912, collage and pencil on paper, 11.5 x 19.5 cm (4 5/8 x 7 3/4 in.)
b) Children`s Art Flower, circa 1912, collage and pencil on paper, 18 x 11.5 cm (7 x 4 1/2 in.)
LOT NOTES
With The Target exhibition, Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova introduced Rayonism, a style of abstract art that developed in Russia. In their literature Larionov and Goncharova described Rayonism as naturally encompassing all existing styles and forms of the art of the past, as they, like life, are simply points of departure for a Rayonist perception and construction of a picture. The Target exhibition featured the latest work of the Donkey`s Tail group. Larionov had already unfurled the plans for this exhibition to the critic of Moskovskaya gazeta in January 1913. He explained:This year we are calling ourselves `The Target`. Last year`s name, `The Donkey`s Tail`, was a challenge to the public. `The Target` is also a challenge. The name symbolizes the public`s attitude to us. The gibes and abuse of those who can`t keep up with us and can`t perceive the aims of art with our eyes fly into us like arrows into a target. Artists, participating in the exhibition included Larionov, Goncharova, Anisimov, Bart, Bobrov, Chagall, Ivan Larionov, Le Dantiu, Malevich, Rogovin, Sagaydachny, Shevchenko, Skuie, Yastrzhembsky and Zdanevich. One of the aims of the exhibition was to present the work of artists not associated with any definite trend or group, and so young students such as Vyacheslav Levkievsky and Sergei Romanovich together with ordinary house painters with artistic aspirations were invited to participate. Majority of the works on view at The Target were executed in a Neo-Primitive style, the sources of which could be traced back to Russian icon painting and lubki.
To emphasize the correspondence between their own work and popular art forms, Larionov included in The Target a selection of contemporary primitive art. Works by Niko Pirosmani (1862-1918), the Georgian naive painter, were exhibited here for the first time, alongside paintings of Russian life and landscape by Pavlyuchenko, a former miner, and pictures by Timofei Bogomazov, a sergeant-major and amateur painter whom Larionov had befriended in the army. Children`s drawings from the collections of Aleksandr Shevchenko and I. D. Vinogradov were exhibited as well as a score of anonymous drawings.
PROVENANCE
From the collection of architect Nikolay Vinogradov (1885-1980)
EXHIBITED
Futurist exhibition MISHEN (The Target) organized by Mikhail Larionov (Moscow, 1913).
LITERATURE
Reproduced in Goncharova, The Art and Design of Natalia Goncharova, Anthony Parton, p. 168, 235
a) Children`s Winter Landscape, circa 1912, collage and pencil on paper, 11.5 x 19.5 cm (4 5/8 x 7 3/4 in.)
b) Children`s Art Flower, circa 1912, collage and pencil on paper, 18 x 11.5 cm (7 x 4 1/2 in.)
LOT NOTES
With The Target exhibition, Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova introduced Rayonism, a style of abstract art that developed in Russia. In their literature Larionov and Goncharova described Rayonism as naturally encompassing all existing styles and forms of the art of the past, as they, like life, are simply points of departure for a Rayonist perception and construction of a picture. The Target exhibition featured the latest work of the Donkey`s Tail group. Larionov had already unfurled the plans for this exhibition to the critic of Moskovskaya gazeta in January 1913. He explained:This year we are calling ourselves `The Target`. Last year`s name, `The Donkey`s Tail`, was a challenge to the public. `The Target` is also a challenge. The name symbolizes the public`s attitude to us. The gibes and abuse of those who can`t keep up with us and can`t perceive the aims of art with our eyes fly into us like arrows into a target. Artists, participating in the exhibition included Larionov, Goncharova, Anisimov, Bart, Bobrov, Chagall, Ivan Larionov, Le Dantiu, Malevich, Rogovin, Sagaydachny, Shevchenko, Skuie, Yastrzhembsky and Zdanevich. One of the aims of the exhibition was to present the work of artists not associated with any definite trend or group, and so young students such as Vyacheslav Levkievsky and Sergei Romanovich together with ordinary house painters with artistic aspirations were invited to participate. Majority of the works on view at The Target were executed in a Neo-Primitive style, the sources of which could be traced back to Russian icon painting and lubki.
To emphasize the correspondence between their own work and popular art forms, Larionov included in The Target a selection of contemporary primitive art. Works by Niko Pirosmani (1862-1918), the Georgian naive painter, were exhibited here for the first time, alongside paintings of Russian life and landscape by Pavlyuchenko, a former miner, and pictures by Timofei Bogomazov, a sergeant-major and amateur painter whom Larionov had befriended in the army. Children`s drawings from the collections of Aleksandr Shevchenko and I. D. Vinogradov were exhibited as well as a score of anonymous drawings.
PROVENANCE
From the collection of architect Nikolay Vinogradov (1885-1980)
EXHIBITED
Futurist exhibition MISHEN (The Target) organized by Mikhail Larionov (Moscow, 1913).
LITERATURE
Reproduced in Goncharova, The Art and Design of Natalia Goncharova, Anthony Parton, p. 168, 235
Estimate: $1,000 – $1,500
Result: $406.25 (including premium)
