Paintings by Alexandra Exter sealed in France
 

Portfolio Russia painter Alexandra Exter sealed after the exhibition in France. Association, which considers itself the owner of rights to the musical legacy of the artist, said that all the pictures are fake.
French police sealed the work of Russia's early XX century painter Alexandra Exter exhibited in the castle of the French city of Tours. Rather, it is a dispute holders.
The exhibition, a retrospective devoted to the works of Exter, opened in Tours on January 30. Also works Exter were submitted pictures of her friends - Vassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich. A total of 300 papers were submitted, of which 150 paintings, believed to belong to the brush Exter.
Writes the local edition of La Nouvelle République, in the closing day, March 22, the exhibition hall came representatives of the Paris criminal police and sealed the work Exter. The artist's paintings were taken to "safe place".
As it turned out, the work had been sealed at the suit of the association, which considers itself the owner of the rights to pictures of Exter. Representatives of the Association appealed to the city court, claiming that all the exhibited paintings were not authentic. They argue that the only work performed in the style of Exter, but not her own.
The owner of the paintings, which granted them for the exhibition, in turn, also appealed to the court. At present, the picture explores the expert to know for them to establish authorship.
It is reported that the pictures no certificate of authenticity. However, we know that such certificates are very expensive, and the owner could simply decide not to receive these documents.
Paintings were made available for exhibition by the Bulgarian art historian and collector Andrei Nakov. He is a prominent expert on the Russian avant-garde and art is a union of France.

150 works??? Tell me more butter ... the Bulgarian historian of art?? nevertheless, I implore you, do not make people laugh ...

- Well-known personality: eek:, this name is always associated with zavoproshennymi things
Another Pts. popular path of western "collectors" (immigrants) to put their belongings in the shabby cities in Europe, print catalogs, or even better - to dilute their collections museum stuff, and then in those directories to try to sell something Russian.

This Mr. Nakov by catalog rayzonne K. Malevich.

Other experts argue about the relationship between authentic and counterfeit, there proportions, as the run rate to outsiders:)

He's been with the draft New Vitebsk:)

http://belarus-art.iatp.by/text/nakov.html

far as I remember Mr. Nakov arranged in Paris 20 years ago an exhibition of Larionov and Goncharova, and was therefore a scandal

P Nakov (art historian, is Bulgarian father and a Polish mother, but for a long time living in France, the author of books about the Russian Avant-garde), indeed, svyazvno several scandals, in particular, was a history associated with Sotheby's, but I do not remember what happened.

However, in this case, the situation is somewhat different than described in the above article.

Exhibition on Russian avant-garde artist Alexandra Exter were actually closed for 3 days before the scheduled time, and 190 exhibited works sealed.

The reason for this was the lawsuit filed by the prosecutor Andrei Nakov, founder and president of the Association "Alexandra Exter. Nakov asked another expert, who noted that the signature on the exhibited works are very different from the original signature of the artist.

The exhibition was organized by Jean nintsiative Shovlena (possibly also Shovelen spelling, but pronounced Shovlen - I quote the second option, as seen on the forum a transcription), which is also an expert on the Russian avant-garde, and which owns 130 of the sealed work. He was not able to provide them certificates of authenticity. According to him, the paintings were bought by them in Russia 30-40 years ago.

Mr. Shovelen (Jean Chauvelin) attributed a large number of forged works Exter, Goncharova, Serebryakov, and even some well-known Russian names. And they are in the last 3-4 years are often sold on the French auction for a very low estimate: for these authors.

See the topic "Russian week in London, the message number 49.
http://forum.artinvestment.ru/showpo...p;postcount=49

Well, now, it seems, someone from the fraternal Bulgarian French take a seat ...

Grandpa, in this case, the Bulgarians do with it, let him breathe, the more that life for them and without that hard:)

Here's the story with Larionov exhibition, organized by A. Nakov:

In the mid 80's. Nakov submitted for examination a significant number of previously unknown works on paper by Mikhail Larionov.
As it happened, and with all other Russian artists of the early 20 century., Larionov's legacy for many years has been forgotten and was not studied. Suddenly the work emerged significantly changed the perception of his work, they can rightly appreciate the richness and heritage of this incredible diversity of the artist, on the revocation of Kandinsky in 1910, the most significant in Moscow.
Work Larionov, the selected Nakov, were presented in 1987 in Frankfurt.

All the European press unanimously noted this event as one of the most important in the troubled history of the discovery of forgotten imieno contemporary art. In October 1988 the exhibition was moved to the Pinakothek in Bologna and then in the Geneva Museum of Art and History. This is where the show suddenly became the subject of very harsh criticism, published in The Tribune of Geneva. Journalist, has no particular competence in the field of art, questioned the authenticity of the exhibited works in very strong language (Nakov twice filed suit for defamation against the newspaper and both times won it).

The City of Geneva on Nakova filed in court and sought the destruction of the disputed works Larionov. As a result, the court fully justified Nakova. With regard to the works of Larionov, April 27, 2001 was adjudicated reshnie on which they were returned to their owners. However, work with pastels were deemed non-genuine, and works in ink on the court is not expressed (70 works from a total of 193).

First attribution Nakov these studies relied exclusively on stylistic analysis. Later, he found numerous archival documentation of the authenticity of pastels Larionov. The results of his research will soon be published.