SACHA MOLDOVAN (RUSSIAN 1901-1982)

SACHA MOLDOVAN (RUSSIAN 1901-1982)
Still Life with Dried Flowers and Persimmons, 1959
oil on canvas
97 x 46 cm (38 1/4 x 18 1/8 in.)
signed lower left; signed and dated on verso

LOT NOTES
Sacha Moldovan was born into a Jewish family in Kishinev, Moldova in 1901. Emigrating to the United States around 1915, Moldovan lived with his family on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, helping to support his family by working numerous jobs, while visiting museums and studying art at nights. After studying art at Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design in New York, he left in 1922-23 for Paris, where he met a fellow Jewish artist and �migr� from Russia with whom he would maintain a life-long friendship, Chaim Soutine. Moldovan lived and worked in Paris for numerous years, where he developed his trademark style of thick outlines and masterful impasto painting. He exhibited widely at the Salons and various galleries in Paris before World War II, returning to the United States before the war and continuing an active and successful career as a painter.