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"Woman in Red Chair"

Description
Oil on canvas painting of a woman in a red chair by the Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed top left and dated 1960. Condition is excellent. Unframed. Provenance: Sarasota, Florida estate.

Nahum Tschacbasov was born in Russia in 1899 and came to the United States with his parents when he as eight years old. He lived in New York City for most of his life as well as East Hampton, New York from 1971 til his death in 1984. He studied in Paris under Rouault, Leger and Max Beckmann. His works are in the permanent collections of many museums including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Whitney Museum of Art, New York; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Jewish Museum, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and the Butler Institute of American Art.