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Valentine Prax (1899-1981)
Lot 109

Valentine Prax (1899-1981)

Nature morte

Fermé6 February 2015

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GBP 4,375

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Valentine Prax (1899-1981)
Nature morte
signed 'V.Prax' (lower left); signed and inscribed 'V.Prax nature morte' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
31 7/8 x 39 3/8 in. (81 x 100 cm.)

Anonymous sale, Neal, New Orleans 18 April 2009, lot 899.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Note du spécialiste


Born in Algeria, Valentine Prax moved to Paris in 1919 and rapidly became absorbed in the creative milieu of the 1920s avant-garde scene. Prax forged a successful exhibiting career, participating in Salon des Artistes Indépendants, the Salon d’Automne, and Salon des Tuileries and exhibiting with dealers Galerie La Licorne and Galerie Berthe Weill. Having endured persecution by the Nazis, as well as the departure of her partner Ossip Zadkine for New York, Prax's postwar-period works are full of expressive colour and dynamic composition.