mikhail
larionov
B. 1881 Tiraspol, Moldova
D. 1964 Paris, France
The Artist
Biography
Mikhail Larionov
B. 1881 Tiraspol, Moldova D. 1964 Paris, France
Mikhail Larionov was an avant-garde Russian painter.
Born 1881 in Tiraspol. He attended the Voskresenskii Technical High School in Moscow and in 1898 entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under Isaac Levitan and Valentin Serov.
Here he met Natalia Goncharova in 1900, who remained his lifelong companion. His work soon caught the attention of colleagues and critics and in 1906 he was invited to exhibit with the Union of Russian Artists and to participate in the Russian Art exhibition at the Salon d’Automne in Paris. In 1908 Larionov helped Nikolai Riabushinskii to organize the Golden Fleece exhibition of the modern French painting in Moscow, which included paintings by artists such as Matisse, Derain, Braque, Gauguin and Van Gogh.
He was the founder of the Jack of Diamonds group (1909-1911). His first solo show was for one day in Moscow in 1911. The artist soon deserted the Jack of Diamonds for the more radical Donkey’s Tail (1912-1913), which held an exhibition in 1912. In 1912 he initiated two very important movements: Rayoism (Luchism) and Neo-primitivism. Rayonism was inspired by Italian Futurism and Neo-primitivism and represented a development of the artist’s Fauvist and Expressionist interests.
Rayoism was officially launched at the Target exhibition of 1913. In 1914 he traveled with Goncharova to Paris. They held an exhibition at the Gallerie Paul Guillaume. In 1915 he traveled with Goncharova to Switzerland, at the request of Sergei Diaghilev. There he designed for the ballet and gained success. While traveling through Spain and Italy he designed three more ballets, all equally successful. In 1919 he settled permanently in Paris. Throughout the decade he worked with Diaghilev as a designer and artistic adviser. Larionov died in 1964 in Fontenay-aux-Roses, near Paris.
Bequest Tomilina (Larionov’s second wife), a significant part of its artistic heritage in 1988 transferred to the Tretyakov Gallery.
Larionov’s works are in the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, MOMA, New York and other museum collections and private collections in Russia and abroad.
Available Artwork
Still life with Pink Roses
Oil on canvas
51 x 77.5 cm. (20.4 x 31 in.)
Woman on a Bench
1902, oil on canvas
61.6 x 86.7 cm. (24.5 x 34.125 in.)
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