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Paule Vézelay, British 1892-1984 - Five Forms: Orange, Brown, Red and Grey on White, 1959; pastel on...
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Paule Vézelay,
British 1892-1984 -
Five Forms: Orange, Brown, Red and Grey on White, 1959;
pastel on...
Starting Bid: £5,500
Estimate: £8,500 - £9,000
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Lot 194
Description
Paule Vézelay,
British 1892-1984 -
Five Forms: Orange, Brown, Red and Grey on White, 1959;
pastel on paper, signed and dated lower right 'Paule Vezelay 59', 45 x 53.2 cm (ARR)
Provenance:
the Estate of the Artist;
England & Co., London (label attached to the reverse of the frame);
private collection
Note:
this work is a variation on the painting 'Yellow Circle, 1956' in the Arts Council Collection, London.
A pioneering artist of British abstraction, this work was made when Vezelay was living in Paris, after moving there in 1926. Vezelay was a central figure in the French avant-garde, exhibiting at the 'Salon des Superindepedants', where her work was praised by Christian Zervos, and was a member of the seminal Abstraction-Creation, alongside her friends Jean Arp and Marlow Moss.
The 1950s was an important time for the artist, when she was invited by Andre Bloc to form a London branch of the constructivist abstract movement 'Groupe Espace', demonstrating her importance as a figure in Modernist European art. Despite some tensions between her and a younger generation of artists, Vézelay eventually succeeded in organising an exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall in 1955, alongside Marlow Moss, Ithell Colquhoun and Sonia Delaunay. In the 1950s the artist also found success designing textiles for Heals.
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