Still life with lemons and holly Alexandra Pregel

Alexandra pregel still life with lemons and holly. 75x64. Superb still life of a russian artist of origin who lived in france and ended her life in the usa. She regularly makes your beautiful results in the auction room. Alexandra pregel (born avksentieva; russian: александра николаевна прегель, aleksandra nikolayevna pregel) (december 15, 1907 – may 28, 1984, new york) was a russian artist. she was born in helsinki, finland, where her parents lived in political exile under the tsarist regime. his father was the socialist politician nikolai avksentiev [1] His father became minister of the interior in the kerensky government. after the october revolution, pregel left russia for paris with his mother maria and stepfather, the russian writer and publisher mikhail tsetlin (aka mikhail zetlin). in 1921, alexandra was accepted into the studio of russian neoclassical artists vasil shukhaev and aleksandr yakovlev in montparnasse. in 1928, alexandra graduated from the ecole nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs and continued her studies with natalia goncharova. [2] In 1937, she married boris pregel, a ukrainian uranium and radium merchant. the couple fled to new york in 1940, after the nazi invasion of france, leaving behind 300 works.   they moved into a manhattan apartment overlooking central park, which also became alexandra's studio. She had her first exhibition in the united states in 1943 showing 36 paintings and in 1944, alexandra pregel was accepted as a member of the national association of women artists.

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