Olga Vladimirovna Rozanova

Olga Vladimirovna Rozanova (born June 22 [July 4, New Style], 1886, Melenki, Vladimir oblast, Russia—died Nov. 8, 1918, Moscow) was a Russian artist who was one of the main innovators of the Russian avant-garde. By the time of her death in 1918, she had embraced in her painting the use of pure colour, a concern that engaged American abstract artists, such as Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko, several decades later, in the 1950s. Rozanova was...