This painting is a tribute to Suzanne Elrod who became famous from the Leonard Cohen song: "Suzanne".  She and Leonard were never married although he did sometimes refer to her as his wife. Elrod, under the name Valentina, shot the cover photograph of Cohen's Live Songs album and is pictured on the cover of the Death of a Ladies' Man album (she is on the viewer's right)
 
The song "Suzanne" was written by Canadian poet and musician Leonard Cohen in the 1960s. First published as a poem in 1966, it was recorded as a song by Judy Collins in the same year, and Cohen performed it as his debut single, from his 1967 album Songs of Leonard Cohen. Many other artists have recorded versions, and it has become one of the most covered songs in Cohen's catalogue.
 
Suzanne was the beautiful, free-spirited wife of an artist Cohen knew in Montreal during the early 1960s, a time when that city was an epicentre of bohemian culture in North America. Like the song’s character, Verdal did indeed feed Cohen “oranges that come all the way from China”; together, the pair savoured the dazzlingly beautiful view, offered by Verdal’s waterfront apartment, of the St. Lawrence River.
 
This painting is to immortalize an image of the bohemian and independent Suzanne.
This original was done on a cradled birchwood panel with Acrylics,. It is 400 x 400 x 3. There are limited edition and Open Edition Prints in 400 x 400 and 750 x 750  on Artist Paper.