Russian avant

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Queen of diamonds - glamorous, socialite in a pink dress and exquisite contrast to the image - huge hands with narrow wrists. Photos of Alexandra Exter quite a bit, but her appearance and rarely described in general terms. For example, David Burliuk wrote simply - "She was young and beautiful. In other descriptions, we find a more symbolic way than a real portrait, - as, for example, in poems of Anna Akhmatova "Old Portrait" devoted to Alexandra Exter:

You pressed a golden oval
The narrow old frame,
 Negro for you a fan of blue ...
Slender white lady.
Hearths in a girl's delicate shoulders.
You look arrogant, stubborn ...
Roses in a faceted glass.

Hardly Akhmatova described it "The Knave of Spades", but one of the options paintings for many years was kept in the family of Nikolai Lunin - husband of Anna Akhmatova and Her fans, Olga Rozanova. Roses constantly linked with the image of Exter and obsessively repeated - in the photograph, in Akhmatova's poetry. Queen of diamonds is also holding something rosaceous. Exter has participated in exhibitions of "Jack of Diamonds" and the law was a "map" of the suit.
Three ladies, three cards - on the Fourth of clubs is not mentioned anywhere. But the three ladies - this is the first lady Russian avant-garde.

14. O. Rozanova queen of diamonds. 1913-1914. Private collection, Moscow
15. A. Exter 1910
16. A. Exter for the exhibition "In the tram. 1915
17. A. Exter 1921