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Chervonnaya lady - a kind of self-portrait card. This story of the series Rozanov particularly unlucky: lost not only the beauty "Chervonnaya lady", but two beautiful versions of "simultaneous images Chervonnaya and peak ladies. The only thing we have - linocuts. These features Chervonnaya ladies, though marked by only a few strokes - a simple rounded face, a soft line of the eyebrows, instead of the crown scarf conceals arranged around the head hair, short bangs, a small chin - are close not only the exterior of Olga Rozanova, photos of which survived quite a bit . Much more important is that they are remarkably similar for all her self-portrait images. That is, in poluprofil, Rozanova usually portrayed himself in numerous graphic self-portraits. In "At the same time the image Chervonnaya and Queen of the ladies" in Chervonnaya lady easily recognized the same character, which obscures, overlapping peaks.

6. O. Rozanova Self Portrait. 1913
7. O. Rozanova Chervonnaya lady dancing. 1913
 8. O. Rozanova Chervonnaya lady. Linocut

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The Queen of Spades - traditionally bright brunette, hard, almost harsh. Her image - one of the most vivid and expressive in the cycle. Not only features but also restrained the severity of the image, it reminds Natalia Goncharova, as we know from photographs and numerous descriptions. "Combed hair, blazing eyes and sharp angular movements gave her resemblance to the exalted socialist revolutionary" (Benedikt Livshits). Marina Tsvetaeva: "First: masculinity. - <... > Integrity features and view, seriously - not severity <...>! - Total image. The most detailed description of the exterior Goncharova left Valentina Khodasevich: "A little head on a high neck. Person - without the details, very well drawn. Mimicry stingy, black hair, or almost, brushed on parting, tighten the head, neck Mapping, and down by the neck, wrapped in a small, barely noticeable puchochek. The eyebrows are black, thin, quiet. Oval face clear. (A small tip) with vigorously carved nostrils. Eyes - brown, small, staring, circled in black fringe of eyelashes. Mouth is not small. Direct line interface gives lips an expression of severity. ... Corners - youthful swollen and raised. The chin is short .... No embellishment: no makeup, not in the clothes.
On relations Olga Rozanova and Natalia Goncharova, we do not know. When Rozanova just beginning its rapid ascent, Goncharova was already a famous artist and his example paved the way for "Amazons Russian avant-garde. She was supposed to be, if not a model, the benchmark for Rozanova. And at the same time - the authority which was necessary to refute, if only for myself, to go further. Perhaps, in the same time, the image Chervonnaya and Queen will give "a complicated situation is encrypted and hidden rivalries, in real life, no clue as to whether or not noted by his contemporaries. Moreover, the Queen of Spades in cards - it is the main rival of the heroine and means "covert hostility". This skromnitsa Chervonnaya overlaps symbolically "lies" the beautiful peaks. Way Olga Rozanova, not marked by scandals, full of inner struggle and overcome the authority and influence - after Goncharova, Tatlin and Malevich will be.

9. O. Rozanova Queen of Spades. 1913-1914. Ulyanovsk Regional art museum
10. Goncharova in the studio Ser. 1920
11. O. Rozanova Simultaneous image Chervonnaya and Queen of the ladies. Linocut
12. O. Rozanova Queen of Spades. Linocut
13. M. Larionov, Portrait of Natalia Goncharova. Lithograph. 1912