Oscar Rabin (1928-2018). Paris, France. Café Nord Sud. 1989. Charcoal, pastel, on paper. 46 x 55 cm. Signed and dated in pencil lower right. This drawing was certainly the inspiration for a painting by Oscar Rabine twelve years later, in 2001. The "Nord Sud" brasserie is located at 79 Rue du Mont-Cenis, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. Provenance: collection of Russian artists from the second half of the 20th century, assembled in the 1960s-1980s by K. & G. M., a French diplomatic couple of Russian origin stationed in Moscow.