Alexandre ROUBTZOFF (1884-1949). Portrait of Suzanne... Lot 34

Alexandre ROUBTZOFF (1884-1949). Portrait of Suzanne Marie-Therese Cabannes. Oil on canvas signed, dated and located 'A. Roubtzoff Tunis. May 1939' on the lower left. Height : 46 46 - Width: 38 cm (some small scratches) Provenance : Suzanne Cabannes Collection (1907-1992) close to the Tunisian salon. Expert : Cabinet Morin-Williams, Mr Thomas Morin-Williams. Suzanne Cabannes Collection (1907-1992), a French woman in Tunis, lover of art of the years 1920-1950. The following set of works is from the Suzanne Cabannes collection (Argeliers 1907 - Tunis 1992). Born in France in the village of Argeliers in the Aude in 1907, just days before the historic Revolt of the Winegrowers that took place that same year, Suzanne Cabannes' parents were exiled to Tunis following the political scandal of the revolt. Suzanne Cabannes quickly developed a passion for art, and from the late 1920s until the 1950s, was particularly involved in the Salon Tunisien - Institut de Carthage, Section artistique; an event that was active from the 1920s to the 1950s in Tunis. In this salon, Alexandre Roubtzoff, Ammar Farhat, Edmond Küss (of which an important painting of 1936 is preserved in the Centre Pompidou, Paris) were exhibited among others.