Larionov, Mikhail Fedorovich

Mikhail Larionov and Natalya Goncharova while working on the design of the ballet The Golden Cockerel , workshops of the Bolshoi Theater, 1913.

Born in the Kherson province, in the county town of Tiraspol . The son of a military paramedic, spent his childhood in the south of Russia in Tiraspol, where he then often returned to summer studies .

In 1891, the Larionovs arrived in Moscow, and Mikhail entered the Voskresensky real school .

In 1898-1910 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture with Valentin Serov , Isaac Levitan and Korovin Konstantin ^[9] . ^[7] There he met Natalya Goncharova , who became not only his life partner (officially the marriage was registered only in 1955), but also a like-minded artist ^[10] .

Since the early 1900s, Larionov actively participated in the artistic life, exhibiting not only in Russia but also in Europe. French painters had a great influence on Larionov, whose work he first met in the Moscow collection of Sergei Schukin .

In 1902-1906 he worked in the style of late impressionism ("Lilac bush in bloom"). ^[7]

In 1906, at the invitation of Sergei Diaghilev, he participated in the Russian section of the Paris Autumn Salon .

In 1907, experiencing the influence of Fauvism and naive art , he turned to a primitive style , creating memorable paintings that are distinguished by their juicy color, sharp lines and sharp scenes ("Resting Soldier", "Spring").

By 1912, he created a new artistic concept - rayism ^[7] , one of the first examples of abstract art in the category of so-called “ pointless creativity ”, where forms were formed as a result of the intersection of rays reflected from various objects.

In 1914, after the outbreak of World War I , he was called up for military service. After discussing the injury, Larionov settled in Paris, where in 1915-1929 he worked with Goncharova for Diaghilev , creating costumes and sets for the productions of his Russian Ballets . In painting, he returned to an early, figurative, manner, chamber genre and still life. Due to the outbreak of the October Revolution , he never returned to Russia.

In 1955, he officially registered his marriage with Natalia Goncharova . After her death in 1962, he married A.K. Tomilina, who became the official heiress of the artist ^[11] .

He died in the Paris suburb of Fontenay-o-Roses in 1964. Buried in a cemetery in Ivry-sur-Seine . In Tiraspol there is a street named after the artist.

Together with Natalia Goncharova, Larionov was an active participant in the “left direction” in art, he initiated a series of high-profile exhibitions:

• 1910 - Jack of Diamonds
• 1912 - Donkey Tail
• March 24 (April 6) - April 7 (20), 1913 - The Target
• 1914 - “No. 4. Futurists, Radiators, and the Primitive”

In 1980, Moscow hosted a personal exhibition of the artist. In 1989, the paintings of Larionov were donated by A. K. Tomilina-Larionova as a gift to the Tretyakov Gallery ^[11] .

In September 2018, a retrospective exhibition of Mikhail Larionov opened in the New Tretyakov Gallery .

He worked actively with publishers, in the 1910s he performed illustrations for the editions of futurist poets (Krucheny's Lipstick, published in 1912). In addition, he designed the following books:

• Parnach, V. Ya. Naberezhnaya / [2 drawings by M. Larionov]. - [Paris, 1919].
• Blok, AA Les douze / traduit du russe par Serge Romoff; avec sept illustration d'apres les dessins de Michel Larionow. - Paris: La Cible, 1920.
• Voyage en Turquie / 32 gouaches 1907-1909, reproduites au pochoir au format et sur papier des originaux. - Paris: L'étoile boitante, [circa 1928].
• Belyaev, N. Poverty. - Paris: The Birds, 1945. (Illustrated by hand.)
• Défense et illustration de l'art abstrait par Michel Seuphor. - Paris, 1949. (Illustrated by hand.)
• Larionov, M. Diaghilev et les Ballets russes / Dessins et textes de Michel Larionov. - Paris: la Bibliothèque des arts, [1970].

Russian Ballets by Diaghilev

• 1915 - “The Midnight Sun ” choreographer L. Myasin, music by N. Rimsky-Korsakov
• 1916 - “ Kikimora ” choreographer L. Myasin, music by A. K. Lyadov
• 1917 - “ Russian Tales ” choreographer L. Myasin, music by A. K. Lyadov (together with N. Goncharova)
• 1921 - "The Jester ", music by S. S. Prokofiev. Larionov also acted as a choreographer together with Tadeusz Slavinsky
• 1922 - “The Tale of the Fox, the Rooster, the Cat and the Ram ”, choreographer B. Nizhinsky, music by I. Stravinsky
• 1929 - “The Tale of the Fox, the Rooster, the Cat and the Sheep ”, choreographer S. Lifar

In other theaters

• 1931 - Classical Symphony , choreographer T. Slavinsky, music by S. Prokofiev (Michel Benois's Opera Ballet, Theater , Paris)
• 1932 - Sergei Prokofiev ’s ballet On the Dnieper , choreography by Serge Lifar .

1913 "Drama in the cabaret of the futurists number 13" . The premiere took place in January 1914, after the collapse of the Donkey Tail group.

• Luchism, M., 1913.

• On December 6, 2016, Mark of Transnistria presented the issue dedicated to the artist and one of the founders of the Russian avant-garde Mikhail Larionov ^[12] .
• In 2018, in Moscow, in the Danilovsky district , Larionova Street appeared ^[13] .

• History of Russian Art, vol. 10, Prince 2, M., 1969, p. 38, 104, 125-130;
• Sarabyanov D. , The Primitivist Period in the Work of Mikhail Larionov, in his book: Russian Painting of the Late 1900s - Early 1910s, M., 1971;
• George W., Larionov. P., 1966.
• Kovtun E.F. Mikhail Larionov. 1881-1964, Aurora, 1998;
• N. Goncharova, M. Larionov: Studies and publications. Collection of articles / Commission for the study of avant-garde art of the 1910-1920s .. - M .: Nauka , 2001. - 252 p. - ISBN 5-02-022615-7 .
• N. S. Goncharova and M. F. Larionov: Research and Publications / State Institute of Art Studies of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation . - M .: Nauka , 2003 .-- 252 p. - ( Art of the avant-garde of the 1910-1920s ). - ISBN 5-02-032673-9 .
• Romanovich S. M. Memoirs of M. Larionov. CD "Artist Sergey Romanovich in painting and word." M. 2003 or a website on the Internet with the address: maakovets.narod.ru.
• Pospelov G.G. , Ilyukhina E.A. Mikhail Larionov. - M .: RA , Galart , 2005 .-- 408 p. - 2000 copies. - ISBN 5-269-01039-9 .
• Inshakov A.N. Mikhail Larionov: Russian years. - M .: Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts , Gnosis , 2010. - 326 p. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-94244-038-1 .
• Inshakov A. N. The subject in lucism: abstract painting by M. F. Larionov // Objectivity and abstraction: Collection of articles / Russian Academy of Sciences , Scientific Council “Historical and Theoretical Problems of Art History”, Commission for the Study of the Art of the Avant-Garde of the 1910-1920s , State Institute of Art Studies ; Responsible editor G. F. Kovalenko . - M .: Nauka , 2011 .-- S. 212-230 . - ISBN 978-5-02-037517-8 .
• Vakar I. A. On the dating of some early paintings of M. F. Larionov // Tretyakov Readings. 2012: Materials of the reporting scientific conference / Scientific editor L. I. Iovleva ; editorial board: L.I. Iovleva, T.V. Yudenkova. - M .: SPM-Industry, 2013 .-- S. 177-186 .

• Larionov, Mikhail Fedorovich / S. M. Gracheva // Baptism of the Lord - Swallow. - M .: Big Russian Encyclopedia, 2010. - P. 721. - ( Big Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 vols.] / Ch. Ed. Yu. S. Osipov ; 2004—2017, vol. 16). - ISBN 978-5-85270-347-7 .

• Mikhail Larionov. Materials for the exhibition in the New Tretyakov Gallery (2018)
• Larionov Mikhail Fedorovich. Biography and works of the artist on Artonline.ru
• Eugene Ilyukhin. Mikhail Larionov at the Tretyakov Gallery / The Tretyakov Gallery Magazine , # 4 2018 (61)
• Andrey Sarabyanov. Swiss impressions of Larionov / Tretyakov Gallery Magazine , # 4 2018 (61)