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"Woman with Red Dog"

Description
Here for your consideration is an original oil on canvas painting by the Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed top right and dated 1960. Condition is very good. Presently unframed. Provenance: Estate of the artist, Nahum Tschacbasov.

Nahum Tschacbasov was born in Russian in 1899 but moved to Chicago when he was a young boy. He moved to New York City as a young man and spent over 50 years living and working from a series of apartments in the Chelsea Hotel. He learned to paint as a young man in France with his early teacher being
Georges Rouault. Tschacbasov returned to New York and for years exhibited at ACA gallery, Perls Gallery and later with John Heller Gallery. His artwork is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Jewish Museum, the Philadelphia Fine Art Museum, as well as numerous university collections. Tschacbasov died in 1984.