Wednesday 9 December 2020
Natalie Gontcharova, Russian 18811962- Abstract composition, circa 1950;
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Natalie Gontcharova,
Russian 18811962-
Abstract composition, circa 1950;
watercolour and pencil, signed lower right, 26x18.5cm
Provenance: Sothebys, London, 26 March 1980, lot 215; Bonhams Sale, London, 25 June 2005, lot 23 (purchased from the above); Aguttes Sale, Paris, 17 February 2010 lot 214, where purchased by the present owner.
Note: This work is part of a series which deals with the concept of space and the cosmos, and was influenced by the launch of Sputnik and the development of the Space Race between the USSR and the USA in the 1950s. Gontcharova was interested not only in the mechanics of space exploration, but also in the consideration of the separation between the material and the spiritual which the idea of space encouraged.
With thanks to James Butterwick, for his assistance cataloguing this work.
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