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ALEXANDER TISHLER Russian 1898-1980 Watercolor

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ALEXANDER TISHLER Russian 1898-1980 Watercolor
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Watercolor on paper. Featuring a still surrealist portrait of a woman holding aloft a flat board of candles. Signed and attr. Alexander Tishler (Russian, 1898-1980 on the lower left corner and dated 1969. Tyshler was born in Melitopol in the Ukraine in 1898; he died in 1980 in Moscow. Considered a moderate avante - garde artist of the 1920's, he exhibited in USSR, East & West Germany, France, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan and the United States. His works are in the Tretyakov Art Gallery and Pushkin Museum, Moscow; the Russian Museum, Leningrad; the Ludwig Museum, Cologne; and the Cremona Foundation, Maryland. PROVENANCE: Private collection (New York, United States)