Most of the members were students at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. The name was first coined by Mikhail Larionov, who initiated the group’s first show and was the famous trouble maker of Russian art in the 1910s. The group consisted of painters from both Moscow and near by provinces. As an association of painters, the Jack of Diamonds, existed from 1911 to 1917. Natan Altman (1889-1970) “Lady by a Piano” 1913, oil on canvasĬonsidered the first group of the Russian avante-garde, the Jack of Diamonds (also known as the Knave of Diamonds) started as the name of an exhibition in 1910 to 1911 held in Moscow.
