Simon MONDZAIN (1888-1979) Transat station, Ville d'Alger boat Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. Titled and countersigned on the back. 54 x 65 cm Mondzain began traveling to Algeria in 1925. He settled there in 1933. He spent the period of the Second World War in Algiers, in the company, among others, of Albert Marquet. He did not return to Paris until independence in 1962. The liner Ville d'Alger sailed between 1935 and 1968.