The family owned an art and antiques gallery and Abraham had an avid interest in the works of young Hungarian artists, discovering and promoting many of them, including Pál Fried.

[6] While still at school, Suzanne would help her parents to sort and catalogue a collection of museum postcards by celebrated artists – an experience that Perlman saw as her early training and inspiration.

After coming in with the lowest tender to supply grain to French troops behind the Maginot Line, Heinz was summoned by telegram to Paris to urgently negotiate the deal and was told to bring his wife.

[6] Amidst the chaos, the couple managed to reach Bordeaux and board what was to be the last vessel to leave Europe on the day of the French Armistice of 22 June 1940.

Later in New York she was a pupil of Sidney Gross, a painter, from whom she drew inspiration and produced abstract works still brimming with the Caribbean palette of the Dutch Antilles.

Her subjects include summer revels and autumn blooms in London’s parks; traffic-laden busy thoroughfares; Covent Garden nightlife; booksellers on a glowing Southbank, and architectural vistas of the Houses of Parliament, Trafalgar Square and St.

[14] It was awarded the Critic's Choice by Jackie Wullschlager of the Financial Times who described Perlman's work as "expressive, visionary [and] deeply engaged with the modernist tradition".