Ivan Fedorovich CHOULTSÉ
1877–c.1932/1939, Russia

Choultse studied under Konstantin Kryzhitsky in St. Petersburg, and exhibited there in various minor exhibitions before 1921. In the early 1920s he left Russia and settled in France. He travelled a great deal, and spent time in both Great Britain and the U.S.A, where he had frequent, successful one-man shows. In 1928, the journal Art News wrote: \\\"His paintings of sunsets and moonlight are almost better than nature itsef...\\\"

Source: Stockholms Auktionsverk, Stockholm, Sweden