Untitled (Talking…Just don’t write… All imagined), ca.1916, ca.1916
Signed center left part of the vertical in Cyrillic “А. Крученых” (A. Kruchenykh) Provenance: - 1910’s -1920’s acquired by Dmitry Petrovich Gordeev (archeologist, art historian, artist, specialist in Eastern art; born in Kharkov; lived and worked in Tbilisi 1910-1920; was very close to the art circles and avant-garde artists of that time; chronicled the Tbilisi group of futurist artists; arrested in 1933; after release lived and worked in Tbilisi in the State Museum of Art in the Department of Russian art under the leadership of S. I. Natsubidze); - Purchased from above by Mr. & Mrs. S. I Natsubidze, Tbilisi in 1950’s -Inherited from above by Nina Solo- monovna Natsubidze, Tbilisi -Private Collection by 2002, Paris - Tallinn Notes on Collections: Dmitry Petrovich Gordeev (1889 – 1968) was the son of the scientist and public figure P. A. Gordeev, his brother Bojidar was a poet. Gordeev was an archeologist, specialist in Caucasian and Byzantine, Middle Asian art; an artist, he was the student of F. I. Shmit, born in Kharkov. From 1910- 1920, he was close to the avant-garde literary and art circles in Moscow and joined the group of “Futurists” as a member. He became their chronicler (see his publication Tbilisi, 1918). He was arrested and judged during the artistic purges in autumn 1933, and later exiled to Tbilisi in 1943 where he worked as a research associate and later Chief of the Department of Russian Art at the museum in Tbilisi until 1979. Alexandra Vladimirovna Natsubidze was an employee of the Tbilisi Museum beginning in 1959 and from 1965 until her death led the department of Russian Art. Dmitry Petrovich Gordeev was her employee, from whom she purchased many works of the Russian Avant-Garde over the years to help support him financially. Exhibition: - May 19 – June 14, 2014: The National Arts Club, New- York, “From Primitivism to Propaganda: Russia’s Modern Masters. - July-August, 2014, “Summer show”, New York