ALEXANDER TYSHLER (RUSSIAN 1898-1980) Cosmos, 1976 oil on canvas 75 x 75 cm (29 1/2 x 29 1/2 in.) signed and dated lower right PROVENANCE Acquired directly from the artist by Mikhail Chemiakin Acquired from the above by the present owner EXHIBITED Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde, February 1998-April 2002 The exhibition traveled to: Pasadena, ArtCenter College of Design, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, February 22 - May 3, 1998 Moscow, The State Tretyakov Gallery, May 15 - June 15, 1999 St. Petersburg, The State Russian Museum, February 12 - April 4, 1999 Oxford, Ohio, Miami University Art Museum, November 2 - December 12, 1999 Brighton, Massachusetts, Boston College, McMullen Museum of Art, October 15 - December 10, 2000 Gainesville, University of Florida, Samuel P. Harm Museum of Art, April 12 - July 3, 2005 Laramie, University of Wyoming Art Museum, September 8 - November 18, 2007 St. Peter, Gustavus Adolphus College, Hillstrom Museum of Art, September 3 - November 10, 20088 LITERATURE Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde (Los Angeles, New York: Curatorial Assistance, Distributed Art Publishers, 1998), ex. cat., p. 232 (illustrated)