Skip to main content
Video Loading
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 9

Nahum Tschacbasov
Still Life with Blue Vase

1934

About the Item

Estate of artist. Russian-Jewish-American artist Nahum Tschacbasov (1899-1984) is known for his intriquing cubo-surrealistic-symbolist works which feature a strong psychological element. Most art admirers are probably unaware of the Tschacbasov’s prominence in the United States. Born in Baku, Azerbaijan (a territory of Russia back in 1899), Tschacbasov was an important figure in the New York art world from the 1930s to the 1950s, displaying his intricate, symbolladen works at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum. Tschacbasov was somewhat of a late starter, moving to Paris in 1932 to study under Adolph Gottlieb, Marcel Gromaire and Fernand Leger. He had his first exhibition in Paris in 1934. He then returned to the US where he joined Rothko and Gottlieb at the Gallery Seccession. He was one of the co-founders of The Ten, a group of socially conscious abstract painters which included Rothko, Gottlieb, Joseph Solman and Ilya Bolotowsky, among others. In 1944, he began to work at Stanley Hayter's Atelier 17, a center for surrealistic ideas. Between 1936 and 1943, he had five one-man exhibitions at the ACA Galleries and participated in five group shows. He also exhibited at the Whitney, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Knox Albright Museum, the Chicago Institute of Fine Art and Corcoran, among others. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Met, the Whitney, the Brooklyn Museum and the Jewish Museum. Tschacbasov slipped off people’s radar in the 60s—we don’t know why—but has recently had several retrospective exhibitions, including at the National Arts Club entitled: "Nahum Tscacbasov: A Retrospective."
  • Creator:
    Nahum Tschacbasov (1899-1984, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1934
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    Newly framed.
  • Gallery Location:
    Lawrence, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU149729624552
More From This SellerView All
  • Woman Playing the Piano Forte
    By Marguerite Stuber Pearson
    Located in Lawrence, NY
    Marguerite Stuber Pearson was a firm proponent of the Boston School tradition, characterized by her mastery of academic technique and the selection of traditional subjects of portraiture, figures in interiors and still lifes. In her debut exhibition at the Guild of Boston Artists in 1931, one reviewer happily reported that her paintings were “executed in the best Boston School tradition.” Upon seeing the show, Edmund Tarbell...
    Category

    1930s American Impressionist Interior Paintings

    Materials

    Oil

  • View From the Artist's Studio, Jerusalem
    By Leonid Balaklav
    Located in Lawrence, NY
    Born in Ukraine and based in Jerusalem, artist Leonid Balaklav seeks to conduct a dialogue with the works of the great masters such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt and Repin. but using as h...
    Category

    Early 2000s Expressionist Interior Paintings

    Materials

    Oil

  • Study
    By Leonid Balaklav
    Located in Lawrence, NY
    Born in Ukraine and based in Jerusalem, artist Leonid Balaklav seeks to conduct a dialogue with the works of the great masters such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt and Repin. but using as h...
    Category

    Early 2000s Expressionist Interior Paintings

    Materials

    Oil

  • Untitled Biomorphic
    By Melville Price
    Located in Lawrence, NY
    Estate stamped and accompanied by a COA from the estate. The history of the New York School painters is still being written, but Price earned a well-deserved place from the beginnin...
    Category

    1940s Expressionist Abstract Paintings

    Materials

    Oil

  • Harlem Laundry
    By Jules Halfant
    Located in Lawrence, NY
    Oil on board. Notable as a Federal Arts Project artist during the Great Depression of the 1930s, Jules Halfant was part of the mural and easel division of the New York Works Progress Administration (WPA). While in the WPA, he worked alongside such well-known artists as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery and Stuart Davis. Halfant studied at the National Academy of Design from 1924-1927. He participated in New York exhibitions at the ACA Gallery in 1935, and the Artists' Gallery in 1938. He also exhibited with "The New York Group" at ACA Gallery in '38 with Jacob Kainen, Herb Kruckman, Alice Neel, Louis Nisonoff, Herman Rose, Max Schnitzler...
    Category

    1930s American Modern Interior Paintings

    Materials

    Oil

  • Interior
    By Diana Kurz
    Located in Lawrence, NY
    The story of the post-WWII New York School artists is still being written. The role of women in the art of the day still needs examination and study. Kurz is one such example. Diana Kurz (b. 1938) was born into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family whose business was Aryanized after the Anschluss forcing the family to flee, first to Spain, then across Europe, and finally to the United States. Brought up as a "normal" American girl, Kurz always wanted to be an artist. She studied at Brandeis, at Hunter with Robert Motherwell and received her MFA from Columbia. She received instruction from Hans Hoffmann, studied with Phillip Guston and Phillip Pearlstein...
    Category

    1960s Abstract Expressionist Interior Paintings

    Materials

    Oil

You May Also Like
  • Cathedral in Venice, large 20th century oil painting, Italian-American artist
    By Louis Bosa
    Located in Beachwood, OH
    Louis Bosa (American, 1905-1981) Cathedral in Venice Oil on canvas Signed lower left 60.25 x 40.25 inches 66.5 x 46.5 inches, framed Born in Codroipo, a small village only a few mi...
    Category

    Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Oil

  • Dancing in the rain 60X30 oil, Valentine’s Day gifts art
    Located in Sempach, LU
    In this vibrant oil painting, I've captured the essence of unbridled joy and carefree abandon. Two figures dance beneath a crimson umbrella, their movements a blend of expressionism ...
    Category

    2010s Expressionist Interior Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Canvas

  • Red dress 60X80 oil, Valentine’s Day gifts art
    Located in Sempach, LU
    In this embodiment of passion and serenity, crafted with oil on canvas, my hand wove the essence of raw emotion into every stroke. I melded expressionism's vigor with realism's detai...
    Category

    2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Canvas

  • Lady in Red 60X80 oil, Valentine’s Day gifts art
    Located in Sempach, LU
    This artwork is a passionate symphony in oil, where expressive strokes and vibrant hues of red capture the essence of emotion and movement. It blurs the lines between realism and exp...
    Category

    2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Canvas

  • Large French Expressionist Oil Painting, Girl, Poupèe, the Doll, Ecole de Paris
    Located in Surfside, FL
    Signed on recto and signed verso, titled, and inscribed Montmartre by the artist. This is a large colorful expressionist painting of a girl doll with long blonde or ginger redhead pigtails. It is titled Poupee 1925 and depicts an Art Deco era flapper girl in a beret. Roger Crusat (French Expressionist artist, poet and lithographer) is known for ballet troupe set design and theatre backdrop painting and architectural motifs. Roger Crusat was born in 1917 in Roussillon, Provence, France. Crusat's early works depict the colorful countryside of Provence in the South of France, As a young man Crusat performed many jobs in the troupe, designing costumes, and even dancing. But, most important, he painted the scenery for the troupe's performances. It was while working in this capacity that he learned the essentials of scenery painting that remain evident in his mature work. Crusat was a student of Andre Fons-Godail at Beaux-Arts in Perpignan when he was called to serve in World War II. After being wounded in 1940, he returned to study under Rene Jaudon at Beaux-Arts in Paris. Crusat was known by his contemporaries as "the Catalan painter of Montmartre" where he lived with his wife until his death in 1994. Cracked and peeling walls framed by rusting water pipes are a common sight in Montmartre. What others considered unnecessary, Crusat included. Water pipes were his cherished motif. Supposed by some to be a symbol of decay and monotony, Crusat's Impressionist water pipes like arteries in the body, convey life. Crusat won the prestigious Prix Populiste for his "Descente d'Eau" (Water Pipes) in 1956. Crusat's mature work retains the essentials of good scenery painting. Intricate detail will not be found, but broad, solid abstract shapes abound. His subtle colors, dense in texture, are meant to compliment his subjects, not distract from them. The critics considered him a lyric expressionist and a "painter of Man" in his portrayal of the anguish of daily life and the regrets of the past. Crusat exhibited at many of the same Salons as the post-impressionists and expressionists. Salon des Independants was co-founded by Georges Seurat. Degas had only one exhibition during his lifetime, and it was at the Galerie Durand Ruel in Paris. Gauguin had also exhibited his Tahitian paintings. Crusat's works were exhibited there in 1955. SELECT AWARDS 1954 Le Prix de la Jeune Peintre 1955 Prix des Amateurs d'Art & des Collectionneurs, Galerie Gazette des Beaux Arts, 140 rue Faubourg St. Honore, Paris Les Jardins des Abbesses purchased by the Republic of France, Prix de la Ville de Marseilles, Prix Othon Friesz 1956 Prix Populiste, Prix de Amedeo Modigliani 1957 Grand Prix International de Vichy, Prix de la Fondation Greenshields 1959 IVeme Grand Prix de Peinture du Festival de Vichy 1967 Le Prix des Amis de Brantôme, Perigord, France 1970 Prix de la Critique Academy de Vernet a Vichy,"La Nuit, Premiere Etude" Roger Crusat, Half-closed shutters , poems enriched with four original lithographs (175 numbered copies) drawn on Henri Deprest's presses on February 13, 1975 , Éditions Matignon 34, 1975. Personal exhibitions Durand-Ruel Gallery, Paris, 1955 [ 1 ] . Galerie Rivière, Paris, november 1958 [ 4 ] . Le Roux and Mathias, auctioneers in Paris, Sale of the Roger Crusat workshop , Hôtel Drouot , Paris, Thursday October 27, 1994 [ 5 ] . Jack's American Bistro, Glens Falls , September- october 2004 [ 6 ] . Collective exhibitions Galerie Roger, Lyon , October 1946 [ 7 ] . Salon des Indépendants , Paris, from 1952 [ 8 ] . Exhibition Discover , Galerie Charpentier , Paris, 1955. Populist Salon, Paris, 1956. Salon des Amis de Brantôme, 1957. Hundred painters and oil - Exhibition on the occasion of the centenary of the first oil drilling , Musée Galliera , october 1958 [ 9 ] . “An artist from Roussillon whose invoice calls for a flattering comparison with that of a Soutine or a Rebeyrolle . Indeed, following their example, he focuses on familiar scenes: Girls on the balcony or in the basket , Laundresses weighing heavily on the iron, draft horses or plucked turkeys, who stand next to a magnificent portrait of a man in a red dressing gown . Hasn't the Prix Populiste already crowned its merits? " - Jean Jacquinot SELECT EXHIBITIONS Galerie La Gentilhommiere, Paris La Salle Arago, Perpignan, Salon des Indépendants, Salon d'Automne Biennale de Menton, Menton Galerie des Jacobins, Lyon Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris Salon de la Nationale Galerie Bassano, Paris Salon Populiste Salon de Romans Galerie Motte, Geneva, Switzerland Exposition à Quiberville sur Mer - Normandie Galerie Charpentier Salon Confrontation: Bernard Buffet, Roger Crusat, Jean Jansem, Franck Innocent, Jean-Jacques Morvan...
    Category

    Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • Dreaming in Color, Expressionist Reclining Female Figure
    Located in Soquel, CA
    A vivid, multicolored expressionist depiction of a gracefully reclining female figure by Bay Area artist Rick Rodrigues (American, 20th Century). Signed with the artist's symbol lowe...
    Category

    1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Canvas

Recently Viewed

View All