Princess Anina GAGARINE-STOURDZA (1868-1918) Portrait of a woman. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1906 upper left. 56 x 75 cm. Wear, small dent. A member of the old Russian nobility, Princess Anina Gregorievna Gagarine-Sturdza, daughter of Prince Gregori Evguenievitch Gagarine-Sturdza, was a portrait painter and pupil of Henner and Chabas, and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français, of which she was a member. She left Russia for Cannes in 1910. The wife of Denys Puech, she lived at Villa Manzyria, avenue du Dr. Picaud in Cannes. This enigmatic portrait is reminiscent of Symbolist artists such as Lévy Dhurmer and Alphonse Osbert.