AW287: Nadejda Oudaltsova Constructivist Composition Oil on Canvas

Nadejda Oudaltsova Constructivist Composition Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: Sight 31 3/4" x 24"; Frame 36 7/8" x 29"

Comments: Nadejda Andreevna Oudaltsova was born in 1886 in Orel, Russia and died in 1961 in Moscow, Russia. From 1905 to 1909, Nadejda Andreevna Oudaltsova trained at the Moscow Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under the direction of impressionist and symbolist painter Konstantin Louon. Later, in Paris she enrolled at the Académie de La Palette as a student of the French cubists Henri Le Fauconnier, Jean Metzinger, and André Dunoyer de Segonzac. Their influences were crucial to her practice, as witnessed in her works presented in 1914 at the Jack of Diamonds exhibition in Moscow. After returning to Moscow, she collaborated in the open collaborative workshop The Tower, where she came into contact with Mikhaïl Larionov and began producing Rayonist works while familiarising herself with the Constructivist theories of Vladmir Tatlin. In 1915 she joined the Supremus group founded by Kazimir Malevich and realised sketches for peasant cooperatives, as well as Suprematist pieces. In 1917, under the direction of the Armenian painter Gueorgui Yakoulov, she participated in a project that crystalized the Constructivists’ ambitions of bringing art and life together – the decorative program of the Café Pittoresque in Moscow.