About the artist Alexandra Altman

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He did not know we have in Russia, but it is well known in France, where for six years, the government purchased eight of his paintings that adorn Luxembourg and other museums. And yet this wonderful man came from Russia. Little nine-Jew threw the family, his home village in the province of Kiev and went to seek his fortune about the wide-world. The ultimate goal of these wanderings was then Paris .... And then one day, six years ago he took and put his picture in the Salon. Immediately began talking about him all the press, struck by the power of colors, bold manner of writing ..
(From an article by Natalia Yulyevna Zhukovsky-Lysenko in the journal "Lukomorye" № 31. July 30, 1916)