Still-life with fruit, vegetable, bowl of eggs and bottle of milk

Details

Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster [Exter] (1884-1949)
Still-life with fruit, vegetable, bowl of eggs and bottle of milk
oil on canvas
32¼ x 21¼in. (82 x 54cm.)
Executed circa 1

Literature

G. Kovalenko, Alexandra Exter - Farbrhythmen, (St. Petersburg, State Russian Museum, 2001), p.157, illustrated
Will be included in the forthcoming monography on Alexandra Exter, prepared by John Chauvelin, Nadia Filatov, Dmitri Gorbatschov and John Bowlt, to be published by the Edition Max Milo, Paris.

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Lot Essay

In conjuction with the prepartion in 1906 of the Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Folkloric Artefacts in Kiev, Alexandra Exter travelled inside the Kiev province. Among the artefacts exhibited, ceramics from the Dibintsi area were well represented.

Alexandra Exter became a keen collector of these ceramics and they are represented in some of her 'Russian period' compositions.

We are very grateful to George Kovalenko for providing the above information on Alexandra Exter.

The painting will also be reproduced in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné prepared by G. Kovalenko in collaboration with the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.

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