Simka Simkhovitch, Russian, Ukrainian, American, 1893 to 1949, oil painting on canvas depicting a portrait of a woman dressed in red and holding a handkerchief. Framed. Provenance: Doyle New York, New York, NY, United States, December 21, 2022, lot 75. An auction paper label is on the backside. Simka Simkhovitch was a Russian artist and immigrant to the United States. He is known for Genre narrative, figure, landscape painting. He painted theater scenery in his early career and then had several showings in galleries in New York City. Winning Works Progress Administration commissions in the 1930s, he completed murals for the post offices in Jackson, Mississippi and Beaufort, North Carolina. His works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. One of a kind artwork.