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Natalia Goncharova (the 3rd of July 1881 - the 17th of October 1962) was a Russian-French avant-garde painter, costume designer, illustrator, and set designer. She is known for co-founding Rayonism with Mikhail Larionov, helping establish Moscow's first radical independent exhibiting group the Jack of Diamonds, and designing costumes and sets for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
Rayonism was a Russian avant-garde art style developed in 1911 by Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov, who produced paintings in that style through 1914. Goncharova's Yellow and Green Forest (1913) is one of her key Rayonist works. She and Larionov led the movement as part of their broader leadership of the Russian Futurists.
The censor confiscated The Evangelists (1910-11) at the Donkey's Tail exhibition, ruling it blasphemous. The grounds included its display at a show named after a donkey's rear end, its blending of sacred and profane imagery, and the existence of longstanding taboos against women painting icons.
On the 18th of June 2007, Picking Apples (1909) sold at Christie's for $9.8 million, setting a record for any female artist at the time. Her 1912 still-life The Flowers, formerly from Guillaume Apollinaire's collection, later sold for $10.8 million in 2008.
The Donkey's Tail was a Russian avant-garde exhibiting group founded by Larionov in 1912 as a more radical break from European art influence, intended to establish an independent Russian school of modern art. At its first exhibition in March-April 1912, more than fifty of Goncharova's paintings were on display.
Goncharova left Russia with Larionov on the 29th of April 1914 and moved permanently to Paris in 1921. There she designed stage sets for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, created fashion designs for Marie Cuttoli's Maison Myrbor on the Rue Vincent between 1922 and 1926, and exhibited regularly at the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon des Independants. She became a French national in 1938.