The Cyclist
To scale 31 x 25 in on the wall
Representative Hand-applied gesso embellishment
About the Artwork
Painted in Moscow in 1913, The Cyclist arrived at a pivotal moment in Goncharova's career; she had just co-founded the Rayonist movement with Mikhail Larionov and was exhibiting provocatively with the Donkey's Tail and Target groups, deliberately positioning Russian avant-garde practice against both Western Cubism and Italian Futurism. Where the Italian Futurists celebrated machinery through dynamic lines of force, Goncharova grounds her cyclist in the specific texture of Moscow street life: the silk and thread merchants' signs locating speed not in abstraction but in a recognizable commercial district. The work entered the collection of the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, where it remains one of the institution's defining examples of the pre-revolutionary avant-garde. Critics at the time recognized the painting as a direct response to Umberto Boccioni's cyclist studies while asserting a distinctly Slavic sensibility; art historian John Bowlt later described it as among the most concentrated images of urban kinesis produced anywhere in Europe before the First World War.
Product Specifications
- Finished size
- 31 x 25 in
- Frame
- Gold, premium resin, mitred
- Canvas
- Heavyweight Fredrix poly/cotton
- Finish
- Hand-applied gesso embellishment
- Inks
- Archival HP Latex, 100-year colorfastness
- Stretcher
- Solid poplar, kiln dried
- Hanging
- Wire and dust cover fitted
- Item
- 1870221
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