Artist

Mikhail Larionov

Portrait of Mikhail Larionov

Russian, 1881–1964

Mikhail Larionov was a Russian artist. 11 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Mikhail Larionov was born in Tiraspol.

Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov was a Russian avant-garde painter who worked with radical exhibitors and pioneered the first approach to abstract Russian art. He was founding member of two important artistic groups Knave of Diamonds and the more radical Donkey's Tail. His lifelong partner was fellow avant-garde artist, Natalia Goncharova, with whom they worked on Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in France and Switzerland.

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