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Paule Vezelay(1892-1984)Sun and Trees at Grasse 38 x 54 cm. (15 x 21 1/4 in.)
29 September 2021, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,020 inc. premium
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Paule Vezelay (1892-1984)
Sun and Trees at Grasse
signed and dated 'Paule Vezelay 1932' (lower left)
pen and ink, pastel and wash
38 x 54 cm. (15 x 21 1/4 in.)
signed and dated 'Paule Vezelay 1932' (lower left)
pen and ink, pastel and wash
38 x 54 cm. (15 x 21 1/4 in.)
Footnotes
Provenance
With England & Co, London, where purchased by the present owner in 2000
Private Collection, U.K.
Exhibited
Machynlleth, Powys, The Tabernacle Cultural Centre in association with the European Arts Festival, Paule Vezelay: Journey into Abstraction 14 September-10 October 1992, cat.no.31
London, England & Co, Paule Vezelay & Andre Masson: Paintings and Works on Paper 1928-1834, December 1989, cat.no.43
London, England & Co, Paule Vezelay 1892-1984: Retrospective, 10 November-5 December 2000
Paule Vézelay (née Marjorie Watson-Williams) studied at Bristol School of Art, London School of Art and the Slade. She joined the London Group in 1922, where she met the Belgian brothers Gustave and Léon De Smet, apparently declaring that 'English art then bored me to tears'. In 1926 she moved to Paris and changed her name, as a tribute to the Romanesque basilica in the town of the same name in Burgundy, residing there until the outbreak of war. At the time the present work was executed, Vézelay was in an intense relationship with the surrealist André Masson whose ideas and creativity influenced her greatly. In the early 1930s she became one of only a few British members of Abstraction-Création and began a long working relationship with Jean Arp and his wife Sophie.