Still Life with Fruit and a Smoking Pipe, 1920, 1920
Signed in upper left corner in Cyrillic АШ/20 (ASh/20) Expertise: - Publication by Sharlotta Douglas (New York, 2005) - Art expertise and conclusion by professor Dmitri Sarabjanow (Moscow, 2006). - Exprtise and art catlogues and monography by N.Shabalina (Moscow, 2011) Provenance: 1930 - 1948 - David Kramer and Irena Ruben, Moscow 1949 - 1969 – Acquired by Solomon Shuster, Saint-Petersburg 1970 - 1984 – Acquired from above by Oleg Chashin, Riga, Latvia 1984 - 2006 – Acquired from above by Stanislav and Nelly Makarenko 2006 - 2011 – Acquired from above by private collection, Paris 2011 – Acquired by Shchukin collection, Paris Notes: Works by Shevchenko are kept in all major Russian museums and included in the permanent expositions of the State Tretyakov Gallery and State Russian Museum. A member of the World of Art exhibitions, the Jack of Spades, Donkey’s Tail, Target, and No. 4 avant-garde expositions, one of the founders of the Makovets and Artists’ Guild unions, theoretician, and professor of Vkhutemas - Vkhutein,