Auguste CHABAUD (1882-1955) The banataises Oil on cardboard signed lower right. 76 x 106 cm Provenance : - Private collection Midi de la France. - Sale Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 23, 2007, n°6, acquired at the above-mentioned sale by the present owner. In 1919, the Banat, the southeastern part of the Pannonian Basin, the plains between the eastern Alps and the Carpathians, was divided between Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia. In the depopulated village of La Roque sur Pernes, a community of Banatais was welcomed and established itself.

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