Oil on canvas, circa 1925. 267x407 mm; 10 1/2x16 inches. Signed in oil, lower left recto, and signed and inscribed "Paris" in oil, verso.
Provenance: the artist Norman Carton, New York; thence by descent, private collection, New York; private collection, New York.
Born Nicholai Petrovitch Glushchenko in a Ukrainian peasant village, Gloutchenko (1901-1977) studied in Germany as a young artist at the Academy of Art in Berlin before training in Paris during the mid-1920s. In Paris, his adopted Post-Impressionist style won praise in salons and abroad; he starred in exhibitions of Soviet artists in Berlin, Brussels, Milan, Paris and Rome.
