Gouché Drawing 1915 Liubov Popova Constructivist Suprematist And Cubo Futurist Artist

LIUBOV SERGUEIEVNA POPOVA IS A RUSSIAN ARTIST BORN ON APRIL 24, 1889 AND DECEASED IN MAY 2, 1924. COMING FROM A FAMILY OF WEALTHY AND CULTIVATED MERCHANTS,
SHE TOOK DRAWING LESSONS FROM A VERY YOUNG AGE.
IN 1909: 1910, SHE WAS INTERESTED IN RUSSIAN ICONS. SHE LEFT TO  KIEV PSKOV, NOVGOROD AND ST. PETERSBURG. IN 1912 AND 1913, STUDIED WITH THE FALCONER AND METZINGER, LIKE MANY OF HER COMPATRIOTS, CHAGALL, PUNI, ALTMAN BOGASLAVSKAYA. SHE RETURNED TO RUSSIA AT THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF WAR IN 1914.
POPOVA'S DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN 1912:1916  IS CHARACTERIZED  BY THE ASSIMILATION   OF SEVERAL DIFFERENT 
INFLUENCES ,HERDRAWINGS  DATABLE  TO 1912-1913 CLEARLT BETRAY  THE INFLUENCE OF LE FAUCONNIER  BUT BY THE MIDDLE OF1914 POPOVA HAD EMBARKED  UPON  A MORE COMPLEX PATH  UN WHICH  THE COMBINED  INFLUENCES OT TATLIN AND BOCCIONI ARE DOMINANT.
POPOVA  USE OF  DIFFERENT STRUCTURAL PLANES  HINGED TOGETHER TO FORMULATE THE FIGURE  IS CLEARLY DEPENDENT  UPON  A CUBIST FORMULATION OF SPACE AND FORMS  FOUND IN  THE WORK OF TATLIN AND BOCCIONI.

THE DRAWING IS MONOGRAMMED  LP IN CYRILLIC LETTERS
PRESENTED IN A CARVED GUILDED WOOD FRAME
PROVENANCE: PRIVATE COLLECTIOIN