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Yellow chair painter (3,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

van gogh

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This could be a double definition.

'yellow chair' is the first definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?

'painter' is the second definition.
(van Gogh is a kind of painter)

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(Other definitions for van gogh that I've seen before include "Sunflowers artist" , "Vincent ... ...., Dutch artist who cut off his ear" , "Dutch post-impressionist painter" , "Dutch painter, d. 1890" , "Post-impressionist painter, committed suicide 1890" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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