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One who deals in revolutionary communist paintings (6)

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I believe the answer is:

trader

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'one who deals' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'revolutionary communist paintings' is the wordplay.
'revolutionary' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'communist' becomes 'red' (red is a kind of communist).
'paintings' becomes 'art' (I've seen this before).
'red'+'art'='redart'
'redart' written backwards gives 'TRADER'.

'in' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for trader that I've seen before include "Retard (anag.)" , "He buys and sells goods" , "Tarred the dealer badly" , "One in business" , "Dealer who buys and sells" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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