"fruit salad" by Constantin Andreevitch Terechkovitch

"Fruit salad" Konstantin Andreevitch Terechkovitch 1902-1978. Lithograph signed at the bottom right and numbered 94/120 at the bottom right. Dimensions visible: 64 X 46 cm. Dimensions with frame: 77 X 55.5 X 2 cm aluminium frame. Konstantin Terechkovitch, generally known as Kostia Terechkovitch, was born near Moscow. In 1920, he went to Paris to study art at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Welcomed by compatriots such as Mikhail Larionov and Soutine, Terechkovitch settled in Montparnasse, where his close friends included Moïse Kisling and André Lanskoy. Kostia Terechkovitch would eventually become the only Montparnasse artist of the interwar School of Paris to maintain his own racing stable, a sign of his keen interest in sport and luxury living. Kostia Terechkovitch was a key member of the loose alliance of colourists known as the Poetic Reality; others included Roland Oudot, Maurice Brianchon, André Planson, Jules Cavaillès, and Roger Limouse. His name is variously transliterated - sometimes Konstantin, sometimes Tereschkovitch.