Paintings by Alexandra Exter sealed in France

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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.