Modernist Abstraction
and the New Woman
Dresses by Sonia Delaunay, Paris 1925 Exhibition
Menu card designed by either Vanessa Bell or Duncan Grant probably for the dinner held at the
Bell's Gordon Square home to celebrate the opening of the Omega Workshops.
Vanessa Bell(b London, 30 May 1879; d Charleston,
Firle, Sussex, 7 April 1961)
Abstract Painting, oil on canvas, 441×387 mm, c. 1914 (London,
Tate)
Duncan Grant Vanessa Bell Pregnant 1918 oil on canvas Mackelvie Trust Collection Vanessa Bell:
Interior with a Table 1921Oil on canvas540 x 641 mm
Sonia [Sophie] Delaunay(b Gradizhsk, Ukraine, 14 Nov 1885;
d Paris, 5 Dec 1979)
La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France (published in October 1913 in the form of a vertical scroll almost 2 m long)
Contrastes simultanés (1912; Paris, Pompidou)
Le Somptier’s Le P’tit Parigot and Marcel l’Herbier’s Vertige (both 1926)
Sophie [née Taeuber] Arp(b Davos, 19 Jan 1889; d Zurich, 13 Jan 1943)
Composition Dada (Tête au plat) 1920, Oil on Canvas
laid on Cardboard,
27 x 34.5 cm, priv. coll.
Vertical and horizontal composition c.1928 construction of oil on composition board103.0 (h) x 145.0 (w) cm, National Gallery of Australia
Rectangular Relief with Cut-out Rectangles, Applied Rectangles and Rising Cylinders
1936–9; Basle, Kstmus
Gabriele Münter (b Berlin, 19 Feb 1877;
d Murnau, Bavaria, 19 May 1962)
Vasily Kandinsky: Composition IV , 1911, Oil on canvas, 159.5 x 250.5 cm Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfallen,
Dusseldorf
Autumn Trees in Tutzing, 1909
Münter: Kandinsky (1906; New York, Leonard Hutton Gals)
Still Life with St. George 1911
Reflecting (1917; Munich, Lenbachhaus)
Staffelsee in Autumn, 1923, oil on board, National Museum of
Women in the Arts, Washington
The Russian Feminist Avant-Garde
Nadezhda Andreevna Udaltsova [Russian Painter, 1886-1961]
The Seamstress, 35.8 x 31in Oil, 1915
Natal’ya (Sergeyevna) Goncharova (b Negayevo, Tula Province, 16 June 1881:
d Paris, 17 Oct 1962)
The Forest, c.1913Oil on canvas, 53.8 x 81
cm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Gardening
oil, before 1908
Still-life on a Tiger Skin (1910; Cologne, Mus. Ludwig)
A Peacock. Ca 1910Oil on canvas, 104.5x100 cm Ulyanovsk Art Museum
Evangelists 1911. Oil on canvas (204 × 58 cm each), State
Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Rayist Forest (1913; Lugano, Col. Thyssen-Bornemisza)
Kirov's production of Les Noces, 1923
'Costume espagnole', 1916
design costums for Le Coq d’or
Lyubov’ (Sergeyevna) Popova (b Ivanovskoye, nr Moscow, 24 April
1889; d Moscow, 25 May 1924)
Portrait of a Philosopher (Artists's brother, Pavel Sergeyevich Popov), 1915
Vladimir Tatlin: Tower or The Monument to the Third International, never built. Planned to be erected in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917
Popova: The Jug on the Table, 1915
CONSTRUCTIVISM
SUPREMATISM
Popova: Architectonic Painting 1917, Oil on canvas, 29 13/16 x 21 in
Kasimir Malevich Suprematist Painting (1916)
Spatial Force Construction, 1921
Liubov Popova's maquette for the construction used in Meyerhold¹s 1922 production of "The Magnanimous Cuckold"
Some of Popova and Stepanova’s design textiles for mass manufacture at the First State Textile Factory in Moscow, 1923-4
Alexandra Exter [Grigorovich](b Belostok, Russia [now Białystok, Poland], 6 Jan 1882. d Fontenay-aux-Roses, Paris, 17 March 1949)
COMPOSITION (GENOA), 1912–14; Oil on Canvas, 115.5 x 86.5 cm,
Cologne, Mus. Ludwig
Colour Dynamism, 1916–17; oil and gouache on canvas Cologne, Mus. Ludwig
Colored Rhythms. 1917. Gouache on board. 148x82 cm. Ludwig Museum (Cologne)
Construction. (1922–23)Oil on canvas, 89.8 x 89.2 cmThe Museum of Modern Art, New York
Woman with birds, 1927 -8, oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm, oil on canvas, priv. coll.