Franck Prazan (born 1966) is a French art collector and the owner of

Applicat-Prazan Applicat-Prazan gallery was established in 1993 on the Left Bank in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés area of Paris at 16 rue de Seine (75006 Paris, France) under the initiative of Bernard Prazan, a keen art collector. Franck Prazan, Bernard Prazan's ...

gallery in Paris. He specialises in

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, a Post-War abstract painting movement, whose main artists include

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, Nicolas de Staël. The Applicat-Prazan gallery regularly attends international modern art fairs, such a
artgenève
Tefaf Maastricht, Art Basel Hong Kong, Tefaf New York Spring, Art Basel Basel, Frieze Masters,

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, Art Basel Miami Beach. Rea
Franck Prazan
s blog.

Biography

Franck Prazan graduated from European Business School. He then occupied managerial positions at

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Couture,

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International and Philippe Charriol. In 1996, he joined

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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. 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. In 2017, Franck Prazan was contacted to sell two paintings by

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and

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on behalf of the

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(MoMA), New York. Franck Prazan has been a Member of the Board of Trustees at TEFAF from 2017 to 2021. Since 2022, Franck Prazan seats at the selection committee of Art Basel in Basel.

Exhibitions

*2006 :

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, Œuvres majeures autour d’un tableau d’exception *2007 : Mes années 50, Collection

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*2007 : Présence, silences, hommage à

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*2008 :

*2009 : Dialogues l Autour de

*2010 :

, les détrempes *2010 : Jean-Pierre Pincemin *2010 : Panorama Jean Fautrier *2011 : 14 Matignon, Exposition inaugurale *2012 : André Masson *2012 :

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, Tours, Favellas et autres œuvres monumentales *2013 :

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, works on paper *2013 :

*2014 :

*2015 :

, Paintings *2016 : Zoran Music *2018 : Le grand œil de Michel Tapié *2019 : Justice! 2 chefs-d’œuvre de Roger-Edgar Gillet *2019 : BBB *2022 :

, Paintings 1951-1962

References

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