"Deux Amies Russes" Olga KLEIN ASTRACHAN vers 1940/45

Very fresh watercolor signed lower left ...... 43.5 / 34 cm ..... Folds about 1 cm on the outside because it was in a narrower frame ........ Comes from the workshop of the painter Garielle IZAURE-DEZES who was friends with her, during her forced stay from 1940 to 1945 in Toulouse .... Unframed Olga KLEIN ASTRACHAN (1907-1999) French painter born in Russia in Saint Petersburg .. .... Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin ... Arrived in Paris in 1933 .... Took refuge in Toulouse from 1940 to 1945 ........ Returning to Paris, she participated in major Salons from 1948 ... Begins to produce Ceramics ...... Museums of Augustins in Toulouse, Ariana in Switzerland