EXTER - LA VILLE - Lot 157

EXTER - LA VILLE Alexandra EXTER (1882-1949) The city - circa 1912 Oil on panel. Signed lower right. 47 x 36.8 cm. Accompanied by a certificate from Jean CHAUVELIN dated June 27, 2012. Bibliography: to be compared with another, larger version; Catalogue of the artist's retrospective exhibition in Tours, January-March 2009, work reproduced on page 139 Note: It is in his signature genius and abstract geometric forms that the artist begins in his best known years (circa 1912). In this painting, produced in the early stages of his career and never exhibited, figurative elements join and merge with geometry. All the great qualities of the Russian avant-garde are to be found here.