Nathalie goncharova biography of albert

Knave of Diamonds Group, Donkey's Tail Exhibition

In 1910, Goncharova and Larionov joined Kasimir Malevich as well as expatriate Russians Alexei von Jawlensky and Wassily Kandinsky, together with French Cubists Albert Gleizes and Henri Le Fauconnier, in forming an association of modern artists known as the Knave of Diamonds (Bubnovyi Valet), in order to exhibit their type of modernist expressionist paintings.

However, in 1911, following disagreements within the group between Goncharova and David Burlyuk (1882-1967), Goncharova and Larionov left to organize an important exhibition of pre-Revolution Russian avant-garde art known as the Donkey's Tail (Oslinyi Khvost).

In the same year Goncharova joined the German Expressionism group known as Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) which was centred in Munich during the period (1911-14).

Cubism, Futurism

Between 1912 and 1914 Goncharova was involved in a number of avant-garde activities.