Word: goncharova
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...cannot have a historical show of women's art without the boring and insipid fribbles of Marie Laurencin, but why include a third-rate vendeuse of exotic surrealist tack like Leonor Fini? In such company, artists like Georgia O'Keeffe, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kathe Kollwitz, Nataliia Goncharova and Sonia Delaunay look extraordinary; one's eye goes with relief to Goncharova's crude, provincial but raucously vital cubist portrait of her husband Mikhail Larionov (1913), the face kippered flat and streaked with voracious slashes of color; it luxuriates in the shimmer of rosy light, circle on circle...
...gallery window, Murphy discovered the cubist masters. He took art lessons from Diaghilev's designer, Natalia Goncharova, who would not let him paint anything recognizably real. Then he began to follow his own bent, meticulously rendering real objects in a bright, orderly manner. His first painting, Razor, done in 1922, was a heraldic crossing of a safety razor and a fountain pen below a matchbox, backed up by angular cubist meanderings. Another painting, 6 ft. by 6 ft., showed giant watchworks. Portrait detailed Murphy's foot and its inky imprint, three true thumbprints, and a prototype profile...
...then the hardened libertine fell in love-by his own count, for the 113th time. Natalya Goncharova's family was not nearly as good as Pushkin's; she had no dowry; she was 13 years younger than he; but she was a beauty. That was enough for Pushkin. After a long and arduous courtship, he married her. Natalya made him a decorative and submissive wife, presented him with several children. But she never returned his love, and though apparently she was technically faithful, her flirtatiousness nearly drove Pushkin wild. On her side, Natalya never understood or cared...