Attributed to Raimonds Staprans, Latvian, American, born 1926, an oil on canvas painting depicting a Post Impressionist still life with three flowers in a cylindrical vase on a bright crimson ground, 19690. Signed and dated on the lower right. Framed. Raimonds Staprans was born in 1926 in Riga, Latvia. Fleeing a Soviet invasion in 1947, Staprans immigrated to America. Along with his family, he settled in Washington, where he enrolled at the University of Washington, Seattle. In 1954, he went on to earn his MA at the University of California, Berkeley. He studied with Hans Hofmann and Karl Kasten, among others, and graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts in 1954. Staprans began exhibiting his art in the Maxwell Galleries in San Francisco. He currently exhibits at the Hackett Mill Gallery in San Francisco and at the Peter Mendenhall Gallery in Los Angeles. His work is held in the permanent collections in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Portland Art Museum, among others. One of a kind artwork. One of a kind artwork. Modernist Paintings, American Art And Wall Decor Collectibles.