Antique Fine Art, Arms&Armor, Sept. 21st 2024
Lot 4205:
Original oil on canvas painting depicting village scene by listed American/Russian artist Sacha Moldovan (1901-1982). Comes with COA. Framed. Signed.
Sacha Moldovan was born into a Jewish family on November 4, 1901 in Kishinev, the capital city of the Republic of Moldavia in Southern Russia. He was named Aloysha by his father and nicknamed "Sacha." In the early 1920’s, Sacha became a U.S. citizen and legally changed his name to Sacha Moldovan, assuming his mother’s maiden name. In 1921, he began to study at the National Academy of Design in New York City. From 1922 – 1923, Moldovan made several trips to Paris by working as a "ship’s boy" on freight steamers. Once in Paris, Moldovan befriended a fellow Slavic artist, Chaim Soutine and they remained life-long friends. In 1924, Moldovan resumed his studies at the National Academy of Design in New York City and produced his first known painting, Femme Au Verre de Vine (Woman with a Glass of Wine). From 1927 to 1933, Moldovan exhibited his work in various salons and galleries, including the VIII Salon des Tuilleries, the Soci?t? des Artists Ind?pendants (multiple times), Galeries Carmine (first one-man exhibition), and the Galerie de la Renaissance Exhibition, which showed the work of forty-five American Artists working in Paris (The organizer, Chil Aronson, used Moldovan’s painting to illustrate the publication for the event).Before World War II, Moldovan traveled back to New York and worked on multiple public art projects and murals under the Federal Arts Project of the Works Progress Administration. Moldovan continued to exhibit his work in many shows in New York, Washington D.C., and Paris and finally retired in Yorktown Heights, New York in 1975Size: 24 1/4" x 20 3/4" framed, 15 3/8" x 11 7/8" unframed. ~~.
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