IVAN BABIJ (1896-1974) Seaside landscape with cliffs

signed ‘I Babij’ (lower right) oil on cavans 46 x 55.5 cm Ukrainian-born painter active in Paris from the early 1920s, Babij exhibited at the Salon d’Automne and the Salon des Indépendants. Maintaining links with the Soviet art world, he participated in major exhibitions in Moscow and Kharkiv in the late 1920s. In 1936, he held a solo exhibition at the Jeu de Paume