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Larionov, Mikhail Fyodorovich 1881-1964
Russian painter

Born in Tiraspol, Ukraine, he studied architecture and sculpture at the Moscow Institute of Painting until 1908. Beginning as a Russian Post-Impressionist, influenced by Pierre Bonnard and the Fauves, he gradually took to a more 'primitive' approach based on Russian folk-art. He worked closely with his future wife, Natalia Goncharova, and together they developed Rayonism (1912-14), a style akin to Italian Futurism. They held a joint exhibition in Paris in 1914. From 1915 they worked on ballet designs for Sergei Diaghilev.