
Daria Khristova nee Chernenko
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£20,000 - £30,000
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Provenance
Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne, Germany. Attribution made in 1987 by Professor Vasilii Rakitin (1939-2017), a leading specialist in the Russian avant-garde art
Acquired from above by an American collector in 1989.
The work was attributed by Vasilii Ivanovich Rakitin, a leading specialist, curator and researcher of Russian avant-garde, who dated the painting to 1920-1922. Elena Vinogradova (born around 1900 in Moscow) was a student of Alexander Rodchenko at the VHUTEMAS, a Russian state art and technical drawing school founded in Moscow in 1920. According to Rakitin, Vinogradova concentrated on developing abstract style in painting, in addition to working in graphic design. She participated in number of art shows at VHUTEMAS, exhibited with the Society of Easel Painters (OST) in Moscow in 1920 and 1928, as well as in a few shows organized by progressive left art groups under leadership of David Schterenberg (1881-1948). Although her work became more figurative in the later 1920s, this particular painting demonstrates a strong influence of A. Rodchenko, Ivan Kljun and the philosophies of Russian Suprematism.