Nadezhda
Andreyevna
UDALTZOVA
Born 1885, Oryol – died 1961,
Moscow
Painter.
Paintings and Graphic Work Biography
Self-Portrait. 1909.
Pencil on paper, 24.7x16.5 cm. Memorial Museum of
A.Drevin, Moscow.
Blue Trees. 1910-1911.
Black and color pencils on paper, 26.5x21 cm.
Private collection, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
Stage Design Sketch. 1910s.
Watercolor on paper, 31.5x41.5 cm. Gallery of
G.Gmurzhinsky, Cologne.
Landscape With a Little Yellow House.
1912.
Watercolor on paper, 12x16 cm. Private collection,
London.
Portrait of a Man. 1912-1913.
Pencil on paper, 22x12 cm. Memorial Museum of
A.Drevin, Moscow.
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A Seamstress. 1912-1913.
Oil on canvas, 70.5x70 cm. The Tretyakov
Gallery, Moscow.
Composition With a Yellow Bridge. 1913.
Watercolor and pencil on paper, 26x35 cm. Memorial
Museum of A.Drevin, Moscow.
A House Among Trees. 1913.
Color pencils on paper, 29.3x26.5 cm. Gallery of
G.Gmurzhinsky, Cologne.
Nudes Against a Landscape. 1914.
Watercolor and pencil on paper, 26.1x34.9 cm.
Collection of Gheorgy Costaki, Athens.
A Model. 1914.
Oil on canvas, 106x71 cm. The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
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Guitar. Fugue. 1914.
Oil on canvas, 53x43 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow.
Novelty (the name of a magazine).
1914-1915.
Oil on canvas, 60x48 cm. The Viatka (Kirov)
Province Art Museum.
A Red Figure. 1914- 1915.
Oil on canvas, 70x70 cm. The Rostov Art Museum.
Self-Portrait with a Palette. 1915.
Oil on canvas, 72x63 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow.
A Restaurant Table. 1915. Study for the painting "Restaurant".
Oil on canvas, 71x53 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow.
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Restaurant. 1915.
Oil on canvas, 134x116 cm. The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
A Bottle and a Glass. 1915.
Oil on canvas, 40x31 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow.
Cubism Composition: Morning. 1915.
Oil on canvas, 49x35 cm. The Makhachkala State
Art Museum of Daghestan, Georgia.
Kitchen. 1915.
Oil on canvas, 165x161 cm. The Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk)
Province Museum of Fine Arts.
A Blue Jug. 1915.
Oil on canvas, 50x68 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow.
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Kitchen. 1915.
Oil on canvas, 66x81.5 cm. The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
Cubism Composition. 1915.
Oil on canvas, 81x66 cm. The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
Decorative Composition N 3. 1916.
Gouache on paper, 24x37 cm. Cooling Gallery, London.
Composition (Violin). 1916.
Gouache on paper, 22.7x18.5 cm. Collection of
Drevin's family, Moscow.
Still Life. 1916.
Oil on canvas, 44.5x35.5 cm. Nizhny Novgorod
(Gorky) Art Museum.
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Suprematism. Composition.
1916.
Gouache on paper, 37x26.5 cm. Cooling Gallery,
London.
Composition. 1916.
Gouache on paper, 27.6x26.6 cm. The Tretyakov
Gallery, Moscow.
Composition. 1916.
Gouache on paper, 30x24 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow.
Composition. 1916.
Gouache on paper, 24x37 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow.
Colorful Construction. 1916.
Oil on canvas, 106x79 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow.
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Composition. 1916.
Gouache on paper, 27.6x26.6 cm. Collection of
Drevin's family, Moscow.
Composition. 1916.
Gouache on paper, 39x46 cm. Collection of Drevin's
family, Moscow.
Composition. 1916.
Gouache on paper, 27.6x26.6 cm. Gallery of
G.Gmurzhinsky, Cologne.
Composition. 1916.
Gouache on paper, 35x26.5 cm. Private collection,
Cologne.
Composition. 1916.
Gouache on paper, 48x38.5 cm. Collection of Gheorgy
Costaki, Athens.
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Composition. 1916.
Gouache on paper, 22x24.5 cm. Cooling Gallery,
London.
Composition. 1916.
Gouache on paper, 64x44.5 cm. Collection of Gheorgy
Costaki, Athens.
Composition. 1916.
Gouache on paper, 27x18.4 cm. Private collection,
Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
Composition N 43. 1916.
Gouache on paper, 26x15.5 cm. Private collection,
Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
Composition. 1916.
Gouache on paper, 24.6x15.9 cm. Collection of
Gheorgy Costaki, Athens.
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Composition with Orange Triangle.
1916-1917.
Gouache on paper, 23x55 cm. Collection of Drevin's
family, Moscow.
Composition. 1918.
Gouache on paper, 37.5x24 cm. Private collection,
Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
Composition. 1918-1919.
Gouache and Indian ink on paper, 27x9 cm. Private
collection, Moscow.
Still Life. 1919.
Oil on canvas, 92x108 cm. The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
Self-Portrait. 1923.
Oil on canvas, 199.5x79 cm. The Tretyakov
Gallery, Moscow.
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Hunting Still Life. 1923.
Oil on canvas. Preserve Museum Country Estate Abravtzevo, near
Moscow.
Landscape. 1924.
Oil on canvas. Preserve Museum Country Estate Abravtzevo, near
Moscow.
Ural. Landscape. 1927.
Oil on canvas, 54x65.5 cm. Private
collection, Moscow.
The Chussovaya River. 1927. (Ural Mountains)
Oil on canvas, 88.5x106 cm. Memorial Museum of A.Drevin,
Moscow.
Altaian Woman. 1930.
Oil on canvas, 70x52 cm. Memorial Museum of A.Drevin,
Moscow.
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Hunters in the Mountains. 1930.
Gouache on paper, 29.5x42.4
cm. Private collection, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
In an Altaian Kolkhoz. 1930.
Oil on canvas, 83x107 cm. The State
Museum of Arts of Orient Peoples, Moscow.
The Breaking of a Horse. 1930. Sketch.
Oil on canvas, 70x98 cm. Private collection,
Moscow.
Altai. At the Smithy. 1930.
Oil on canvas, 45x57 cm. Private collection,
Cologne, Germany.
Shaman. Altai. 1931.
Oil on canvas, 80.5x65.5 cm. Gallery of
G.Gmurzhinsky, Cologne.
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Altaian Woman on Horseback. 1931.
Gouache on paper, 31x19.5 cm. Memorial Museum of
A.Drevin, Moscow.
Altai. A Trip to the Mountains. 1931.
Oil on canvas, 32.5x42 cm. Memorial Museum of
A.Drevin, Moscow.
On Horseback. 1931.
Gouache on paper, 29.5x32.5 cm. Private collection,
Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
A Mountain Lake. 1931.
Gouache on paper, 30.5x44 cm.
Private collection, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
Altaian Woman on Horseback. 1931.
Oil on canvas, 53x70.5 cm. Private collection,
Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
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The Reaping of a Harvest. Altai. 1931.
Oil on canvas, 57x41 cm. Memorial Museum of
A.Drevin, Moscow.
Hay-Making. 1931.
Gouache on paper, 27.2x18.5 cm. Private collection,
Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
Sweeping Haystacks. 1931.
Oil on canvas, 55.5x69 cm. Memorial Museum of
A.Drevin, Moscow.
A Horse Race. 1931.
Gouache on paper, 65.5x79.5 cm. Private collection,
Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
Village at the Foot of Altai Mountains.
Twilight. 1932.
Oil on canvas, 42.5x52 cm. Private collection,
Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
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Landscape with a Vehicle. 1932.
Oil on canvas, 56x77.5 cm. Memorial
Museum of A.Drevin, Moscow.
On the Threshing Floor. 1932.
Oil on canvas, 67x80.5 cm. Oriol Province
Art Gallery.
A Road Among the Trees. 1933.
Gouache on paper, 30x42 cm. The State
Museum of Arts of Orient Peoples, Moscow.
In an Armenian Kolkhoz. 1933.
Gouache on paper, 32x44 cm. Memorial
Museum of A.Drevin, Moscow.
On the Way to Yerevan Bazaar. 1933.
Gouache on paper, 30x42 cm. The State
Museum of Arts of Orient Peoples, Moscow.
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In an Armenian
Village Garden. 1933.
Oil on canvas, 50x68 cm. The Tretyakov
Gallery, Moscow.
In an Armenian
Village Garden. 1933.
Oil on canvas, 50x68 cm. The Tretyakov
Gallery, Moscow.
Armenia. Women Loading Baskets on a Donkey. 1933.
Oil on canvas, 39x52 cm. Private collection, Frankfurt-am-Main,
Germany.
Bazaar in Yerevan. 1933.
Gouache on paper, 32.5x44 cm. Memorial Museum of A.Drevin,
Moscow.
At the Well. Armenia. 1933.
Gouache on paper, 25.5x36 cm. Memorial Museum of A.Drevin,
Moscow.
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Armenia. Fruit Harvest. 1934.
Oil on canvas, 20x26.5 cm. Memorial Museum of A.Drevin,
Moscow.
Bread in Times of the War . 1942.
Oil on canvas, 59.5x80 cm. The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
Military Air Base Near Moscow. 1942.
Oil on canvas, 58x78.5 cm. Memorial Museum of A.Drevin,
Moscow.
Portrait of a Military Pilot. 1942.
Oil on canvas, 70x50 cm. Memorial Museum of A.Drevin, Moscow.
Self-Portrait. 1944.
Oil on canvas, 60x49 cm. Private collection,
Moscow.
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Gipsy Dance. 1945.
Oil on canvas, 62.7x80.5 cm. Memorial Museum of A.Drevin,
Moscow.
Portrait of Alexandra Kononova (an
Actress in the Gipsy
Theatre "Romen"). 1945.
Oil on canvas, 93.5x76.5 cm. Memorial
Museum of A.Drevin, Moscow.
The Blue Plate. 1946.
Oil on canvas, 78.5x110.5 cm. Collection of the
Moscow International Bank.
Portrait of Andrey Drevin (the Artist's Son). 1948.
Oil on canvas, 55.3x46 cm. Memorial Museum of A.Drevin,
Moscow.
Onions in a Basin. 1952.
Oil on canvas, 50x70 cm. The Tretyakov
Gallery, Moscow.
Flash Lights. 1952.
Oil on canvas, 60x89 cm. Memorial Museum
of A.Drevin, Moscow.
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Nadezhda Udaltzova is another artist, with whom the public is unfamiliar, practically un known even to many of her contemporary artists. She was a beautiful woman of bothe noble character and birth, one of a group of women-artists called “The Amasons of the Avant-guard”. Udaltzova a wonderful artist of the cubism with an individual manner, her paintings and especially “Compositions” notable for their bright colors. Russia should have taken pride in this great talent, but in this strange land this isn’t the custom. Udaltzova's fate was miserable.
Nadezhda Udaltzova was born in the family of a gendarmerie officer Andrey Timofeyevich Prudkovsky and his wife, Vera Nikolayevna (born Choglokova). In 1892 the family moved to Moscow. Nadezhda studied at a private girls’ gymnasium, which she graduated in 1905.
She has studied at the private Art School of K.Yuon (1905-1909) in Moscow. The artist has visited Berlin and Dresden (1908), mostly museums. After her return she has taken the examination for MUZhVZ (Moscow High Art School), but did not pass the competition – and married Alexander Udaltzov.
In 1909 Udaltzova has discontinued her studies at Yuon’s school and begun to paint herself from nature.
She has continued studying (1910-1911) at the workshop of Karol Kisz, the pupil of Sh.Holloszi. An exhibition of the “Jack of Diamonds” group was absolutely not to her liking.
In 1912 Nadezhda Udaltzova has studied at the Academy La Palette, Paris, under Le Fauconnier, Metzinger and de Segonzaque (along with Liubov Popova, Vera Mukhina and others). And after her return (1913) she has worked at the studio of Vladimir Tatlin in Moscow.
After her mother has died in 1913, N.Udaltzova was responsible for her three younger sisters, one of which was an invalid.
In September 1916 her husband Alexandr Udaltzov was called in for military service. Nadezhda was left with no means and had to work a lot in order to provide for her sisters and herself. In addition she was very active in her artistic and social life.
From 1914 Udaltzova has taken part in exhibitions of “Jack of Diamonds” (Moscow, 1914, 1916); “Tramway V” (Petrograd, 1015); futurism exhibition “Magazine” (Moscow, 1916); 2nd Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art “Verbovka” (Recruiting – Moscow, 1917); First exhibition of the Professional Society of painters of Moscow (1918); First Exhibition of Russian Art (Berlin and Amsterdam, 1922-1923); exhibitions of painting in VKhUTEMAS (1923); “OMKh” (1927-1928); double shows of A.Drevin and N.Udaltzova at the Russian Museum (Leningrad, 1928)and at the Yerevan State Culture-Historical Museum (1934); Exhibition of Russian Art (Vienna, 1930), last exhibition of the group “Thirteen” (1931).
She was a member in the meetings of the “Cubists circle” (1914), an organizer of the artistic society “Supremus” (1916-1917), one of the organizers of Left Federation of Moscow Artists Union (1917-1919), the Society of painters and sculptors “Moscow Painters”(1925), “OMKh” (Society of Moscow Painters, 1927-1928). All of these groups of 1915-1917 were against bourgeoisie and welcomed the October Revolution. She has worked at PROLETKULT (College by affairs of Fine Arts, 1917-1919), the Artel of masters and INKhUK (Institute of Artistic Culture, 1920-1921).
She has taught at the SVOMAS in Moscow (1919), first as assistant of K.Malevich, then herself headed a studio; was professor at the VKhUTEMAS-VKhUTEIN, has taught at workshops on faculties of paintings and textile (1920-1930).
Udaltzova’s father, A.T.Prudkovsky, the gendarmerie general in resignation, was shot in 1918.
In 1919 Udaltzova married Alexandr Drevin, and in 1921 their son Andrei was born.
Together with A.Drevin she has several times visited Ural (1926-1928), Altai (1929-1933), Armenia (1933-1935), has gone to Mologa-river to work on landscapes (1937).
In 1933 Udaltzova and Drevin were severely criticized as formalists. On the night of January 16th, 1938 Alexandr Drevin was arrested, and on 26 February he was shot. Later, he has been rehabilitated post mortem in 1957.
During the II World War (1941-1945) Udaltzova has painted with a group of artists, created portraits of military pilots in Moscow, then portraits of actors at the Gipsy theatre “Romen”. These paintings were exhibited at her personal show at the Moscow Union of Artists on May 9th, 1945 (the day Victory Anniversary is celebrated in Russia). In 1946 she was awarded the medal “for valiant labor”.
But in 1949 she was criticized anew on account of “formalism and naturalism, primitivism and stylizations”. The paradox of it is: this artist, who has welcomed the Revolution, promoted it with enthusiasm, were unjustly and viciously persecuted by this same political movement.
Nevertheless, despite the persecution Udaltzova has never consented to work in the manner expected by the official art. She ceased engaging in cubism, but preserved her personality and could never be converted into socialistic realism.
The next exhibition she participated in was only in 1957.
The artist died in Moscow in 1961.