Four rooms · 4 artists

Instead of Picasso, start here

Some of Cubism's most rigorous conclusions were drawn in Moscow and Paris by women who are rarely hung beside him. This route moves from fractured plane to pure colour, and ends with the geometry that walked off the canvas and into a factory.

Modern · Russia

Lyubov Popova

1889–1924 · Painterly architectonics, then production art

ConstructivismGeometryTextiles

Modern · Russia

Natalia Goncharova

1881–1962 · Avant-garde engine of Russian modernism

FuturismNeo-primitivismReligious form

Modern · Ukraine / France

Sonia Delaunay

1885–1979 · Simultaneous colour, on canvas and off it

AbstractionColour theoryDesign

Modern · Poland / France

Tamara de Lempicka

1898–1980 · Chrome-hard glamour of the interwar city

Art DecoPortraitureSculptural form