Nadezhda Udaltsova (1885-1961), "At The Piano" (1914)

Udaltsova attended the Acádemie de la Palette in Paris, assimilating the principles of Cubism from Le Fauconnier and Metzinger. She remained loyal to the primacy of studio painting, resisting the pressures–especially in the wake of the October Revolution–to adjust the fine arts to the applied or utilitarian. She continued to concentrate on Cubist compositions–and it was these that attracted attention at the First Russian Art Exhibition in Berlin in 1922.