Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov - Artist Info

About Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov

Name variants

Larinov Mikhail Fedorovich, Michail Larianov, Mikhail Larinov, Mikhail Larionoff, Michel Larionov
  • Biography

    Mikhail Larionov was born at Tiraspol, near Odessa. In 1898 he entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under Isaac Levitan and Valentin Serov. He was suspended three times for his radical outlook. In 1900 he met Natalya Sergeevna Goncharova and formed a life-long relationship with her.

    From 1902 his style was Impressionism. After a visit to Paris in 1906 he moved into Post-Impressionism and then a Neo-primitive style, which derived partly from Russian sign painting. In 1908 he staged the Golden Fleece exhibition in Moscow, which included paintings by international avant-garde artists such as Matisse, Derain, Braque, Gauguin and Van Gogh. Other group shows promoted by him includ...

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