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...
French Police Confiscate Entire Alexandra Exter Exhibition Claiming Fakes
THE ART NEWSPAPER , London, MAY issue, 2009« Russia stories » by John VaroliSt. Petersburg On March 19 French police confiscated an entire exhibition of artworks attributed to Russian avant-garde artist, Alexandra Exter. Police acted on a complaint made by leading avant-garde expert, Andrei 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...