Yelena Genrikhovna Guro

Yelena Genrikhovna Guro (born Jan. 10 [Jan. 22, New Style], 1877, St. Petersburg, Russia—died April 23 [May 6], 1913, Uusikirkko [now Polyany], Karelia) was a Russian painter, graphic artist, book illustrator, poet, and prose writer who developed new theories of colour in painting. These theories were implemented by her husband, the painter Mikhail Matyushin, after her untimely death. In her work she unified two eras in the development of art—Art Nouveau and the 20th-century avant-garde—in...