Suzanne Lalique Haviland Woman Painter

Portrait of Mr. Morhange by Suzanne Lalique. The canvas is signed and dated 1935 at the top left. It is framed in a molded and painted wooden frame from the first part of the 20th century. Suzanne Lalique (1892-1989) is the daughter of René Lalique, creator of the Lalique house. At a very young age, her father asked her to create models for bottles and jewelry. Eugène Morand, painter and future director of the National School of Decorative Arts, introduced him to oil painting. Through her marriage to Paul Burty Haviland, a painter close to Pablo Picasso, she came into contact with the artistic avant-garde. She was then called upon as an interior decorator, taking care of the layout of the liner Paris in 1921. In 1930, the Bernheim Jeune gallery presented a first personal exhibition of her painted work. She also devotes herself to theater and opera sets, working in particular for French comedy.