MacDougall Auctions 30 November 2004
30 November 2004
101. CHAPIRO, JACOB 1897-1972
Still Life with Pomegranates Signed and dated 1940.
Oil on canvas, 33 by 41 cm.
1,500-2,500 Pounds
Russian painter of the Ecole de Paris born in Dvinsk, son of a wood carver. In 1921 came to St. Petersburg, worked closely with Stanislavsky, Vakhtangov, and Meirkhold. Came to Paris in 1925, exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, the Salon des Independents, and numerous personal exhibitions.
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