In 1906, Sergei Diaghilev invited Mikhail Larionov to contribute to his show at the Salon d’Automne in Paris. The artist’s visit to the French capital was extremely important for his subsequent career, as it was there that he became acquainted with Fauvism. But in the painting Garden, apart from Fauvism, Larionov found another source of in¬spiration. This source was his native Tiraspol, where the artist spent the summer period without exception, and where many of his new works came from. The lavish colours of this provincial southern town poured out of his canvases like a flowing stream in the early 1910s, the era to which Garden belongs.

Larionov Mikhail

Larionov, Mikhail Fyorovich (1881, Tiraspole - 1964, Fontenay-aux-Roses (France))
Painter, graphic artist, leader of the Russian avant-garde movement. Studied under Isaac Levitan, Valentin Serov and Konstantin Korovin at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1898-1910). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1898). Contributed to the exhibitions of the Union of Russian Artists (1906-1910), World of Art (1906, 1911-1913, 1915), Stephanos (1907-1908), Wreath (1908), Link (1908), Exhibition of Modern Trends in Art (1908), Golden Fleece Salons (1909-1910), Wreath/ Stephanos (1909), Vladimir Izdebsky Salon (1909-1910), Jack of Diamonds (1910), Union of Youth (1910-1912), Donkey's Tail (1912), Der Blaue Reiter (1912), Der Erste Deutsche Herbstsalon (1913), Target (1913), No. 4. Futurists, Rayonists, Primitive (1914), 1915 (1915), International Exhibitions in Venice (1907, 1920) and the Exhibitions of Russian Art in Paris (1906, 1921) and Berlin (1906). Designed for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (1914-1929).