Oil on masonite, signed at lower right, retaining document to verso, presented in a contemporary giltwood frame.

Panel 10 x 8 in.; Frame dimensions 15 x 13 in.

Private Collection, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Art Gallery Originals, Winston Salem, North Carolina.

Born in Ukraine, Blahove studied at the Academia Vicente Puig, Buenos Aires, and at the National Academy of Design in New York City. He was was a noted portrait artist whose paintings appear in the National Collection of Fine Arts and Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Navy Combat Art Collection, Washington, D.C.; Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Southampton College, Long Island University, New York; and at the Salmagundi Club, New York, where he was a member.

Good estate condition.