French art collector
Franck Prazan Franck Prazan (born 1966) is a French art collector and the owner of Applicat-Prazan gallery in Paris.[ 1] School of Paris , a Post-War abstract painting movement, whose main artists include Jean-Michel Atlan , Pierre Soulages , Serge Poliakoff , Nicolas de Staël .
The Applicat-Prazan gallery regularly attends international modern art fairs, such as artgenève, Tefaf Maastricht , Art Basel Hong Kong, Tefaf New York Spring, Art Basel Basel, Frieze Masters, Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain , Art Basel Miami Beach.
Biography
Franck Prazan graduated from European Business School .[ 2] Dior Couture, Cartier International and Philippe Charriol.
In 1996, he joined Christie's France as Managing Director. As such, he oversaw its development from a simple representative office to a fully fledged auction house, moving the company to the Avenue Matignon in Paris.[ 3]
He succeeded his father, Bernard Prazan, in 2004 and has been running the gallery since then. In 2010, the gallery opened a second site on the Right Bank at 14 avenue Matignon.[ 4]
In 2017, Franck Prazan was contacted to sell two paintings by Jean Dubuffet and Georges Mathieu on behalf of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York.[ 5]
Franck Prazan has been a Member of the Board of Trustees at TEFAF [ 6]
Since 2022, Franck Prazan seats at the selection committee of Art Basel in Basel.
Exhibitions
2006 : Schneider , Œuvres majeures autour d’un tableau d’exception
2007 : Mes années 50, Collection Alain Delon [ 7]
2007 : Présence, silences, hommage à Geer van Velde
2008 : Serge Poliakoff
2008 : Jean-Michel Atlan
2009 : Dialogues l Autour de Pierre Soulages [ 8]
2010 : Jean-Michel Atlan , les détrempes
2010 : Jean-Pierre Pincemin
2010 : Panorama Jean Fautrier
2011 : 14 Matignon, Exposition inaugurale[ 9]
2012 : André Masson
2012 : Alfred Manessier , Tours, Favellas et autres œuvres monumentales
2013 : Maurice Estève , works on paper
2013 : Serge Poliakoff
2014 : Georges Mathieu
2015 : Maurice Estève , Paintings
2016 : Zoran Music
2018 : Le grand œil de Michel Tapié
2019 : Justice! 2 chefs-d’œuvre de Roger-Edgar Gillet
2019 : BBB
2022 : Georges Mathieu , Paintings 1951-1962
References
^ "Confessions of a dealer: Franck Prazan" . The Art Newspaper . 6 October 2018.^ "Bernard et Franck Prazan : le retour du fils prodigue" . Le Journal des Arts . January 2005.^ Toutelaculture.com , Le salon du dessin a 20 ans , article de Amelie Blaustein Niddam, 30 mars 2011.^ Franck Prazan, Paris reste une école , Le Figaro/Beaux-Arts -Le guide de l'Art 2011^ Harris, Gareth (19 January 2017). "MoMA turns to Paris dealer to sell deaccessioned Dubuffet" . The Art Newspaper . ^ "Franck Prazan rejoint le conseil d'administration de Tefaf Maastricht" . Le Quotidien de l'Art . 26 April 2017.^ "Expo Alain Delon : Mes Années 50" . Le Figaro .^ Dialogues - Autour de Pierre Soulages , 2009, Google Books^ "14 Matignon, Exposition inaugurale de la galerie Rive droite" . L'Officiel, galeries & Musées . 2011.
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