NATALIA GONCHAROVA (1881-1962) Illustration for two poems of Aleksei Kruchyonykh ‘Pustynniki’ and ‘Pustynnitsa’ (The desert men and The desert woman), 1913

signed in Cyrillic in plate ‘N. Goncharova’ (lower left); hand-written text (on the reverse), ownership stamp of Igor Dichenko collection (on the passe-partout) lithograph 18.3 x 14.4 cm Provenance: collection of Igor Dichenko (1946-2015), Soviet and Ukrainian collector, art historian, painter, one of the ideologists of the Ukrainian avant-garde, Kiev. Private collection, Europe Note : Many of Goncharova's illustrations bear similar inscriptions on the reverse, in the same handwriting but with different texts. It is possible that some of the lithographs were kept by their author or publisher and used as sheets of paper for notes.