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Paul Chabas (French, 1869-1937) "La Nymph" oil on canvas, signed lower right 12 x 8in. (30.5 x 20.3cm.) * Provenance: Purchased at Mc Tears Auctions, Glasgow, 2016 for £1,800. ** Note: Born in Nantes in 1869, Paul Chabas trained under William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury. He first exhibited at the Salon in 1890 and won the Prix National at the 1899 Paris Salon and was awarded a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 and in 1912 received the Médaille d'Honneur. His is considered one of the greatest painters of the nude, a subject that stirred much controversy in America where his painting September Morn provoked a scandal and much publicity. When he entered the painting in the Paris Salon of 1912, he set a price of $10,000, which he believed no one would pay. Leon Mantashev, son of oil magnate Alexander Mantashev, was willing to meet this price, and the painting was sold to him. Chabas was also an illustrator and his work appeared in many books. He became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1921 and received the Légion d'Honneur in 1928. From 1925 to 1935 he was president of the Société des Artistes Français. He died in Paris in 1937.