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Experts jealous Alexandra Exter
//The scandal around the exhibition in Tours
The newspaper Kommersant »№ 61 (4116) on 07/04/2009
Exhibition vanguard
French city of Tours was in the center of a huge scandal. Nobody expected that it will show "Alexandra Exter and her Russian friends." Commented Surya b-Sadekova.
When the eminent Parisian judge Jean Shovlen suggested to the authorities of Tours, to an exhibition on the sign to the representative of Russian avant-garde, they gladly gave their consent. Gala Opening Day was held in late January. Local and even national press made a laudatory articles. It turned out that it is virtually the first serious retrospective of Alexandra Exter in a country where the artist spent the last part of his life.
Visitors should have been taken in the halls of Tours of the palace. However, a few days before the planned completion of the exhibition in the museum raided by prosecutors and sealed all the exhibits. Total 190 pieces, 160 of which are part of a personal collection of Jean Shovlena - curator of the exhibition. In his own words, these works were purchased by them in the USSR 30-40 years ago. The servants of the law is suspected that the lion's share of the paintings represented in the halls of the museum, forgery. The city fell into a deep state of shock. This case can not remember the history of museum activities of the French Republic. Instigator of the scandal was made by Andrei Nakov, who, like Jean Shovlen, is a known expert in the field of Russian avant-garde.
It should be noted that Andrei Nakov is not the sole owner of the rights to the legacy of creativity Alexandra Exter. Exactly the same rights and have an expert organizer Jean Shovlen. After all, once gentlemen Nakov and Shovlen together on an equal footing, acquired rights from the direct heir of the artist Alexandra Exter, Simone Lissima. Then the life paths of two experts differed.
In recent years, Andrei Nakov serves as the chief expert on the works of Kasimir Malevich. The art published fundamental work devoted to the founder of Suprematism. Folio, however, gained the status of the fundamental labor, which all refer to and which is an integral part of historians and art historians. The puzzle is no in it. Despite the fact that Andrei Nakov deals Russian avant-garde since the mid 1960's, his name is mainly associated not with scientific activity, but with different scandal. In mid-1980's, he even had the unfortunate experience of dealing with justice, when it was discovered that dozens of watercolor works by Mikhail Larionov, which no one has ever seen, before they got into a collection of Andrew Nakova are fakes.
But in Jean Shovlena no less complicated affair with Russian avant-garde than his former friend and ally. As an expert, he has evolved from a ballet dancer. The love of Russian art, in the words of the same Shovlena, he instilled Lifar. No one was surprised that for a resounding statement of the project, Mr. Shovlen chose provincial museum of the city. Typically, large art critics do not see such exposures. They serve to attract tourists, but not professional experts. On the other hand are always accompanied by catalogs. And every work that visited the exhibition in the museum, and even reproduced in the catalog, gaining legitimacy, provenance. Each auction house will gladly take this work for sale. Mr. Shovlen done a great job, but he could not have imagined that a colleague, even a competitor, would show such aggression. After the scandal Andrei Nakov as disadvantageous as Shovlenu. Whatever was the court's decision, whatever the case is over, the main thing done: the market of Russian avant-garde, which was already drowning in scandals, may simply be ruined.
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc-y.aspx?DocsID=1151427
In my opinion ridiculous. : D