About Alfred Cohen

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    The following biography has been supplied by Professor Max Saunders, trustee of the Alfred Cohen Art Foundation:

    ALFRED COHEN; 1920-2001

    The twentieth-century American artist Alfred Cohen lived in Chicago until 1949, Europe (mainly Paris) until 1960, and in England from then until his death in 2001.

    Alfred Benjamin Cohen was an American whose art was firmly rooted in the European tradition; he was inspired in particular by the commedia dell'arte, the caricatures of Daumier and the colour and handling of the Post-Impressionists and Expressionists.

    He was born on May 9 1920 in Chicago. His father, a furniture dealer, had emigrated from Latvia to America, where he married the daughter of another Latvian emigre. ...

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