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When Nivo Cevat was 10 years old, his father died. In a shelter he learns the basics of painting as a 'dyer'. At the age of 23, Nico found a job as a decorative painter at Bellevue, the center of social life in Amsterdam.
Simon Maris gives him tips and instructions that year. Later he got a job with restorer Frans Vos at the Stedelijk Museum, predecessor of the Frans Hals museum.
After a short stay in America, he started an art dealership in Amsterdam in 1923 and also restored paintings.