GONCHAROVA, Natalia - photo 1

GONCHAROVA, Natalia

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€ 2 000
Auction dateClassic
10.03.2022 10:30UTC +02:00
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Lot 76 | GONCHAROVA, Natalia
GONCHAROVA, Natalia

Voyna. Misticheskie obrazy voiny. 14 litografii. (La Guerre. Images mystiques de la guerre. 14 lithographies).

GONCHAROVA, Natalia

Voyna. Misticheskie obrazy voiny. 14 litografii. (La Guerre. Images mystiques de la guerre. 14 lithographies).

Moscou, V. N. Kashin, 1914



L'UN DES OUVRAGES LES PLUS CÉLÈBRES DE L'AVANT-GARDE RUSSE



ÉDITION ORIGINALE



In-folio (370 x 280 mm), 2 ff. (page de titre/mentions légales, table des planches/vierge) + 14 pl. , chemise de carton fort jaune à rabats illustrée. Les feuillets de texte étaient à l'origine un bifeuillet.

TIRAGE non précisé, sur vélin

ILLUSTRATION : couverture illustrée d'une xylographie de Natalia Gontcharova, qui a également réalisé les 14 lithographies en noir

Emboîtage et étui de Jean-Luc Honegger : maroquin blond et crème, lettre noire au dos.



RÉFÉRENCES : Rowell n°73 et ill. p. 95-97 ; R.M. Mason, Guerres, Cabinet des estampes, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève, 2003, pp. 13-29 & 66-68 ; Getty Museum, Russian Modernism, n°212



Le chiffre "I" imprimé sur le portfolio suggère que Les Images mystiques de la guerre devaient inaugurer une série. Le projet n'aboutit pas, probablement en raison du départ de Goncharova pour l'étranger, qui quitte la Russie pour Genève en juillet 1915, puis s'établit à Paris, en 1916 (Kowtun, p.169, note 129)



"Goncharova, in her epic teatment of war, combined innovation with traditional forms, particularly icons and lubki. However, her series has nothing in common with a pseudo-folk style or with the propaganda spirit of posters or postcards. In her Mystical images, a sense of ritual performance dominates the cycle. Goncharova creates her own mythology of war, combining the revived heraldry of the Russian coat of arms, symbols of Britain and France, apocalyptic images, and recognizable details of present-day military uniforms, factory smokestacks, and airplanes. A keen awareness of history emerges through visual allusions and allegories" (Rowell).



First edition of one of the most "profound and unique artistic responses to the war" - the famous series of 14 lithographs by Natalia Goncharova.

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