The White Eagle, from War: Mystical Images of War

Prints and Drawings

1914

Natalia Goncharova
Russian, 1881-1962

Folk imagery and the language of icons informed Goncharova’s Neo-primitivist style. In this work, the two-headed white eagle of Russia dominates the crowned black Prussian eagle with one beak and clasps a crescent moon in the other, referencing Turkey or the Ottoman Empire. Emphatic lines animate the composition, a modernist treatment of space and action akin to concurrent explorations in Cubism and Futurism.

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Artist: Natalia Goncharova
Title: The White Eagle, from War: Mystical Images of War
Place: Russia (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1914
Medium: Lithograph on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 32.6 × 24.9 cm (12 7/8 × 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Margaret Fisher Endowment
Reference Number: 1992.4.2

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