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Keywords: NO RESERVE, cubist, female nude, seated figure, geometric composition, Russian avante garde, modernist painting, oil on board, figural abstraction, angular forms, Russian avant garde, signed painting
Summary:
Liubov Sergeevna Popova Russian Avante Garde Cubist oil painting on board, signed lower right and depicting a seated female nude constructed with angular, geometric forms. Cubism revolutionized art by deconstructing objects into geometric shapes and analyzing them from multiple viewpoints simultaneously
Liubov Popova was born in 1889, the second child and eldest daughter of the rich and philanthropically inclined owner of a textile factory. The creator of what she termed "Painterly Architectonics" and "Painterly Constructions, " Popova remains one of the most important female figures in Russian Modernism. As a young woman, she traveled to France, Italy, and throughout her native Russia. She studied the Renaissance works and icons in the churches of Pskov and Novgorod along with the avante-garde ideas of Futurism and Constructivism. Popova’s work reflects a flatness that is borrowed from religious icons and Cubism combined with dynamism and a strong sense of movement.
(Presents well with age-related wear, expected surface wear, scattered abrasions, and some areas of rubbing visible throughout.)
Measurement: Art: 37 1/2 x 22 1/2 in. (95.3 x 57.2 cm.), Frame: 43 x 28 in. (109.2 x 71.1 cm.) approx
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