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Rozanova Olga,
Oil on Ņanvas
62 x 53
State Russian Museum
An artist who sadly died young, Olga Rozanova was one of the most talented members of the Russian avant-garde. Like the majority of her contemporaries, she passed through a period of Neo-Primitivism, when she painted Street. Rozanova was inspired by Russian provincial life, icons, folk prints (lubok), toys and traditional fretwork.
Rozanova, Olga Vladimirovna (1886, Malenki (Vladimir Gubernia) - 1918, Moscow)
Painter, graphic artist, designer of futurist publications, writer on art. Studied at the Stroganov School of Technical Drawing in Moscow (1904-1910) and the Elizaveta Zvantseva School of Art in St Petersburg (1911). Member of Supremus (1916). Worked for Department of Art People's Commissariat of Education and headed the section of applied art of Proletcult (1918).