Attributed to Simon Albert Bussy, no coa, private collection, medium: oil, measurements: 29"WX34"H framed, mint condition Biography:Albert Simon Aimé Bussy was a French painter who married the English novelist Dorothy Bussy. He knew and painted many members of the Bloomsbury circle.In 1901 Bussy visited London, where he came into contact with members of some English artistic circles, especially the Bloomsbury Group, and where he met Dorothy Strachey, who became his wife in 1903. Shortly after the wedding Simon and Dorothy moved to Roquebrune Cap Martin, in the south of France, where they bought a small house that soon became a meeting point for both French and English artists, writers and intellectuals. In addition to Dorothy's brother, the historian Lytton Strachey, and his cousin, the painter Duncan Grant, others included Rudyard Kipling, André Gide, Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Mark Gertler, Paul Valéry, Virginia Woolf, and Bernard Berenson. The painters Henri Matisse and Georges Rouault also visited.Later, the Bussy spouses alternated between Roquebrune and England, where they spent the summer. At that time Simon painted mostly portraits (among others, Gide, Valéry and several of the Bloomsbury group), and pastel landscapes with pastel. Later he devoted himself almost exclusively to animals, especially birds, reptiles and fish, and would observe and study them at London Zoo.