The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Landscape with Houses and Trees
c. 1914–15
(Russian, 1882–1949)
Framed: 99.4 x 75.9 x 8.3 cm (39 1/8 x 29 7/8 x 3 1/4 in.); Unframed: 79.7 x 54.5 cm (31 3/8 x 21 7/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2008.37
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Alexandra Exter fled Russia for Paris in 1924, where she continued painting and also became a designer and professor.Description
A leading artist of the Russian avant-garde, Alexandra Exter was associated with the Cubo-Futurist, Suprematist, and Constructivist movements. This landscape features a complex interweaving of fragmented, geometric planes intersecting and colliding in a collapsed space. Exter painted this abstract landscape at a crucial time when she was moving beyond Cubism toward a more dynamic style of intense color and energetic movement.- Purchased from the artist in 1931 by Zalman Zaks, Leningrad-Moscow, Soviet Union.By decent to son Moisei Zaks, Soviet Union.Moisei Zaks exports the painting upon immigrating to the United States in 1956.By decent in 1996 to nephew Leonid Zaks and Elena Zaks, Ramat Gan, Israel.[Hiedemann Fine Art - Art Brokers International, Richmond, VA, in 2008]Purchased from the above by The Cleveland Museum of Art in 2008.
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