Lev TCHISTOVSKY (Pskov 1902 - Cenevières 1969... Lot n° 10

Reclining Nude with Emerald Watercolor on paper 35 x 48,5 cm (14 x 19 in) at the view Signed and localized in the upper left corner "L Tchistovsky Paris Lev Tchistovsky was born on May 25, 1902 in Pskov, Russia. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg with Vasily Savinski and Alfred Eberling as his teachers. Tchistovsky left Russia in 1925 and entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, then the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where he met his future wife Irene Klestova. The painter moved with his wife to Paris in the Montparnasse district, and set up his studio in the impasse Rouet where he met André Breton and Tamara de Lempicka. In the 1930s, the couple left Paris for the south in Cénevières. He died there on August 23, 1969. His wife donated some of his paintings to the Museum of Villefranche de Rouergue. Lev Tchistovsky exhibited regularly in Paris: at the "34" Gallery with the painters of Montparnasse and Montmarte (1933), at the Salon des Indépendants (1937-1969) at the Salon du Printemps (1947,1948), as well as in galleries in France, England and the United States. The Museum of Fine Arts in Villefranche de Rouergue and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg have works by Lev Tchistovsky in their collections.