In this episode, we’ll be visiting Linen 1913 by Natalia Goncharova at the Tate Modern in London. Welcome to Art, Culture & Books with me, Anthony King.
The gallery tell us that Natalia Goncharova was born 1881 in the Russian Empire, and worked in the Russian Empire and France “The two sides of the work are divided between men’s and women’s items of laundry-shirts, collars and cuffs on the left; lace, undergarments and an apron on the right. Each side bares Cyrillic initials; the iron the artist’s own monogram, the folded shirt a mysterious ‘AL’. PRACHE is part of the Russian word for ‘laundry’, BOT possibly part of the word meaning ‘work’. B.S. could be an abbreviation for ‘whitewash’. The painting conveys a dynamic impression of someone walking by the laundry, giving it a quick glance”.
By Anthony King (c)