ALEXANDER TYSHLER (RUSSIAN 1898-1980)

ALEXANDER TYSHLER (RUSSIAN 1898-1980)
Cosmos, 1976
oil on canvas
75 x 75 cm (29 1/2 x 29 1/2 in.)
signed and dated lower right

PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the artist by Mikhail Chemiakin
Soroka Gallery, San Francisco
Acquired from the above by the present owner

EXHIBITED
Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde, February 1998-April 2002

The exhibition traveled to:
Pasadena, ArtCenter College of Design, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, February 22 - May 3, 1998
Moscow, The State Tretyakov Gallery, May 15 - June 15, 1999
St. Petersburg, The State Russian Museum, February 12 - April 4, 1999
Oxford, Ohio, Miami University Art Museum, November 2 - December 12, 1999
Brighton, Massachusetts, Boston College, McMullen Museum of Art, October 15 - December 10, 2000
Gainesville, University of Florida, Samuel P. Harm Museum of Art, April 12 - July 3, 2005
Laramie, University of Wyoming Art Museum, September 8 - November 18, 2007
St. Peter, Gustavus Adolphus College, Hillstrom Museum of Art, September 3 - November 10, 20088

LITERATURE
Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde (Los Angeles, New York: Curatorial Assistance, Distributed Art Publishers, 1998), ex. cat., p. 232 (illustrated)

RELATED LITERATURE
MIHAIL CHEMIAKIN (New York: Mosaic Press, 1986). Vol. I: Russian Period, Paris Period, p. 36, showing Chemiakin and Tyshler with a fragment of a painting from the same series of three works as the present lot