A painter of unquestionable originality and equally great constancy of creativity, Alexandra Exter is the artist to whom we owe the birth of constructivist painting in Russia. After a Cubist period in Paris between 1910 and 1912, Exter rapidly moved on to incorporate the principles of the Lire la suite...
Police Break Up Suspected Forgery Ring about Russian Avant-Garde Art
The collapse of the Soviet Union flooded the art market with works of often uncertain provenance. German and Israeli police now believe they have broken up a ‘cartel’ suspected of selling hundreds of Russian avant-garde forgeries worth tens of millions. Dusk was falling over the foothills of the Lire la suite...
Imaginary provenances
The origins – and thence the proof of authenticity – of the “new works” circulating since the publication of Chauvelin and Filatoff’s Alexandra Exter (Paris, 2003) and even more so since the 2009 Château de Tours exhibition and catalogue raise the question of the provenance of the works. The Lire la suite...
The Tours exhibition and defending the integrity of Alexandra Exter’s work
On 19 March 2009, the French police confiscated a series of paintings attributed to Alexandra Exter that were being exhibited in the municipal rooms of the Château de Tours. The judicial system was acting on a complaint filed by the Alexandra Exter Association (See communiqué of the Tours state Lire la suite...
Malevitch peinturluré : une affaire belge résolue par des enquêteurs russes
Qui a réellement créé la « collection des chefs-d’œuvre » d’Igor Toporovski ? D’après l’article d’Ivan Petrov paru dans le quotidien russe de référence les Izvestia du 13 février 2020. En décembre de l’année dernière, Igor Toporovski, galeriste d’origine russe connu par un scandale a été Lire la suite...
Misinformation, ongoing…
English translation of the article about Ms. Patricia Railing and the “InCoRM” published on January 27 "Désinformation, suite" Following various texts disseminated through the internet where the “president” of the “InCoRM” group vehemently supports the presumed authenticity of the works Lire la suite...