Seamstress

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (Russia).

This painting is one of her first Cubist works, in which compositional rigidity in combination with the simplification of techniques can be traced. This is a proof of the influence her teacher had on her – it is significant that the artist’s exhibition debut held in Jack of Diamonds was accompanied by the exposition of paintings by French master Henri Le Fauconnier, whose student she was. The bluish (another variant is ocher-greenish) gamma traditional for Cubism is used, the painting has letters, and the figure of the seamstress is actively merged with the background consisting of geometric figures.