Rose was a Montreal-based artist, a wealthy woman who had two sisters, also artists.

Rose and her sister Fanny were the painters, with both sisters exhibiting at the Kastel Gallery, where I worked for a number of years.

The sisters were jealous of one another and they somehow solved the problem by not exhibiting extensively.

When Rose died, I remember the estate consisted of an extensive collection of jewels. Paintings, drawings and all sorts of works of art were found everywhere in the artists home; under beds, in closets, in the damp basement.

Over the following years, the Kastel Gallery would promote the work of the sisters, giving them the attention that they did not get during their lifetime.