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Natalia Goncharova, The Little Station c.1912. oil on canvas, Private Collection<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

18 September 2014 to 18 January 2015<\/h1>\n

This September a special display of early twentieth-century Russian avant-garde paintings will be shown at The Courtauld Gallery, generously loaned from a private collection. This project is led by the Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre (CCRAC) and marks the importance of the\u00a0Jack of Diamonds\u00a0<\/em>group, founded in Moscow in 1910. In Russia it became one of the most celebrated exhibition societies across the whole Russian avant-garde before 1914, but it remains less well known in the West. The display includes works by Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Goncharova, Aristarkh Lentulov, Vladimir Burliuk, Olga Rozanova, and Alexandra Exter, all of whom, both men and women, were equally active contributors to the\u00a0Jack of Diamonds.<\/em><\/p>\n

In December 1910, at the first\u00a0Jack of Diamonds<\/em>\u00a0exhibition, works by the French Cubists Albert Gleizes and Henri Le Fauconnier as well as paintings by Wassily Kandinsky, Marianne Werefkine and Alexei von Jawlensky were exhibited, alongside portraits and still lives by the younger members of the group, who were strongly influenced by the French and German artists.<\/p>\n

The combination of European innovation and Russian national traditions was a distinctive feature of the\u00a0Jack of Diamonds<\/em>\u00a0group. These artists were united by their interest in folk art and shop signs. Even in the title of their first exhibition (and subsequently of the group), reflected their interest in the Russian popular prints, known as\u00a0lubki<\/em>. Playing cards and\u00a0lubki\u00a0<\/em>were always similar. Larionov spoke of playing cards as a type of \u2018people\u2019s pictures\u2019. The artist Kuprin remembered: \u201cOnce I was at Larionov and Goncharova\u2019s house. We were sitting around the table, looking at the reproductions of French paintings. Larionov took a Jack of Diamonds playing card and said: \u2018Why not call our exhibition and movement \u2018Jack of Diamonds\u2019?\u2019\u201d Whether this story is true or not, the combination of Russian art and Western-European influences made this group unique.<\/p>\n

Visitors to the\u00a0Jack of Diamonds<\/em>\u00a0display will be able to see the works in the context of The Courtauld Gallery\u2019s permanent displays of French paintings by Matisse and the Fauves, German Expressionist artists from Die Br\u00fccke, and Russian painters based in Munich, including Kandinsky, Aleksei Jawlensky (Yavlensky) and Werefkin (Verefkina).<\/p>\n

In 1913-1914 the\u00a0Jack of Diamonds<\/em>\u00a0held two evening events at the Moscow Polytechnic Institute billed as\u00a0Disputes<\/em>. During the course of our exhibition we intend to debate the same subjects afresh to celebrate a centenary of the\u00a0Jack of Diamonds<\/em>\u00a0debates.<\/p>\n

Postgraduate students from The Courtauld Institute of Art and the University of Cambridge have worked closely together on this project with curators John Milner and Natalia Murray.<\/p>\n

This project also marks the Galleries’ contribution to the UK-Russia Year of cultural exchange and collaboration. It is supported by the British Council and by Elena Sudakova of GRAD, the Gallery of Russian Art and Design, London. For more information, please see:\u00a0http:\/\/www.courtauld.ac.uk\/gallery\/exhibitions\/2014\/jack-of-diamonds\/index.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n

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