Page 1 of 4 "Canal Saint Martin" by Alexandre Putov

"Canal Saint Martin" in Paris 1990 by Alexandre Putov. Oil on canvas, signed, dated, and located on the back. 90 x 90 cm. Alexander Putov is a painter, born in Russia, then emigrated to Israel and finally to France. He was born on 9 March 1940 in Kamensk, Russia, to a Jewish mother, Sarah Isaakovna Abarbanel, and an Orthodox father, Sergei. He initially prepared to become a doctor but realised it was not for him. At the end of his military service in 1962, he spontaneously began to draw and then decided to become a painter. During the following ten years, Alexander Putov settled in Moscow, where he obtained a degree in architecture and organised a few exhibitions of his works. Throughout his life, he experimented with a vast number of different techniques. Ranging from drawing to oil painting, as well as sculpture, engraving, and the use of found and reused objects during the art-cloche period. Thus, it is difficult to place Alexander Putov within a particular movement, although some refer to him as an expressionist. He describes his vision of art as "the realism of destiny." He was a member of the "art cloche" movement founded by Nikolai Pavlovsky. This movement originally resided in a squat on Rue d'Arcueil. Delivery by Colissimo only.