Mario Prassinos (French, 1916-1985) Bessie Smith "L'Imperatrice"
Hammer Price w/ BP
$19,800
| Lot #: 68 Mario Prassinos (French, 1916-1985) Bessie Smith "L'Imperatrice" |
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Painted 1963, oil on canvas. Signed and dated (lower right). Note: Bessie Smith was known as the empress of jazz. |
| 51 x 38 in. |
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Provenance Estate of Kathleen Patricia Ford, Rochester, New York. |
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Condition No in-paint or restoration. Some areas of craquelure and varnish dripping to upper left. A few paint fleck losses. |
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Auction Date Mar 20, 2024 |
Details:
Mario Prassinos (French, 1916-1985)
Mario Prassinos was a French modernist painter, printmaker, illustrator, stage designer, and writer of Greek-Italian descent. He attended the Sorbonne in Paris beginning in 1932 and briefly trained in the studio of French painter Clement Serveau. Through his father’s literary interests, Prassinos became acquainted with Surrealism, meeting Paul Eluard, Andre Breton, Slvador Dali, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, and other in 1934. He worked in a Surrealist style, introducing procedures of automatism and formal ambiguities that he retained in his later works.
Mario Prassinos was a French modernist painter, printmaker, illustrator, stage designer, and writer of Greek-Italian descent. He attended the Sorbonne in Paris beginning in 1932 and briefly trained in the studio of French painter Clement Serveau. Through his father’s literary interests, Prassinos became acquainted with Surrealism, meeting Paul Eluard, Andre Breton, Slvador Dali, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, and other in 1934. He worked in a Surrealist style, introducing procedures of automatism and formal ambiguities that he retained in his later works.
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