Ларионов, Михаил Федорович

Painter, scenographer, graphic artist

Born Tiraspol, 3 June 1881

Died Fontenay-aux-Roses, 10 May 1964

Larionov studied from 1898 to 1900 at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1900 he was expelled. That year with Natalia Goncharova. The were lifelong partners. In 1906 he visited Paris and developed his Neo-primitivist style and in 1913 the Rayonist style. In 1915 he left Russia and worked for Diaghilev's Ballets-Russes. Together with Gontcharova he lived and worked in Paris. He is one of the inventors of modern world art and one of the most important Russian avant-garde artist.

1913-14

1918

1919

1920

1921

1922

1923

1925

1929

1948

1952

1956

1961

1963

1965-66

1968

1969

1970-71

1972-73

1976

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1987

1989

1991

1993-94

1995-96

1998-99

2002-03

2009

2018