NATAN ALTMAN (1889-1970) Nature morte à la bouteille

signed in Cyrillic ‘Nat. Altm’ (lower right); ownership stamp of Igor Dichenko collection (on the reverse) pencil, pastel on paper 49 x 32 cm PROVENANCE: Collection of Igor Dichenko (Ihor Dychenko) (1946-2015), Soviet and Ukrainian collector, art historian, and painter; one of the ideologists of the Ukrainian avant-garde, Kyiv. Private collection, Europe Nathan Isaevich Altman (1889 - 1970) was a Russian and Soviet painter, avant-garde artist (cubist), sculptor and theatre artist, honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1968), master of portraiture. From 1902 to 1907 he studied fine arts at the Odessa Art School, then continued his studies at a private studio in Paris (1910-1911). During this period, he was influenced by modernism, in particular cubism. In Paris he attended the ‘Free Russian Academy of Vasilieva’. From 1906 he took part in exhibitions. In 1910 he showed his works at the exhibition of the association ‘Partnership of South Russian artists’ in Odessa, in 1911 he presented his works in Paris at the ‘Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts’. Later he took part in exhibitions of the association ‘Mir Iskusstva’ (in 1913, 1915, 1916), ‘Soyuz Molodeghi [Union of Youth]’ (1913-1914), ‘The last futuristic exhibition of paintings 0,10’ (1915-1916), the association ‘Jack of Diamonds’ (1916).