Enchevêtrement – Alexandre Putov

Alexandre PUTOV – Technique mixte sur papier signée et titrée Enchevêtrement 
l’œuvre mesurant 20×26 pouces – dans son cadre mesurant 25×30 pouces

Alexander Putov (1940-2008) was born in Kamensk, Russia. He started drawing during his service in the army, then studied in Moscow at the Moscow Institute of Architecture. In 1973 he emigrated to Israel, where he thought it would be possible to create more freely. In 1986, he was invited in Paris to a international exhibition of comtemporary art (CIAC) and decide to stay in Paris. He began working in the squats with Russian artists of “Art-Cloche”, including Yuri Titov, Alekcei Khvostenko, Valentin Samarine, Oleg Sokhanievitch… Putov then  moved with his wife to Gonesse in Paris suburbs, and later to Brittany, in the west of France. He succumed to Parkinson disease November 2008 after having completed his autobiography “Reality of fate” which was published in Moscow in 2013.