François EBERL (1887-1962) Portrait of Madame Osuska, ca. 1928-1929 Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. 35 x 27 cm Provenance: Sale Atelier Grognard, Gillet-Seurat. Moretton, Rueil-Malmaison, 25 October 2009, n° 133. Bibliography: Gerald Weinpolter and Miriam Forster, François Zdenek Eberl, Catalogue raisonné online, www.eberl-info.com, reproduced as no. G369. Mrs. Osuska, born Pavla Vachkova, a singer at the National Theatre in Prague, married in 1919 Dr. Osuski (1899 - 1973), one of the founders of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918. He became Czechoslovakia's minister plenipotentiary in Paris from 1921 to 1940.