The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 16, 2025
Landscape with Houses and Trees
c. 1914–15
attributed to Alexandra Exter
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 was born in Białystok (in present-day Poland) but moved with her family to Kyiv when she two years old. She spent the formative years of her life and career in Ukraine and her work is deeply related to Ukrainian folk traditions and national identity.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.
- Robinson, William H. "Beyond Cubism." Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 48, no. 10 (December 2008): 4-6. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 4, Cover archive.org
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