Valentine Prax was one of the women artists working in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. She was relatively successful and was allowed to hold a solo exhibition of her work in the Sélection gallery in Brussels as early as 1922. One of the works she exhibited was this landscape, which the art historian and collector Leo Van Puyvelde bought. The unconventional technique and the free use of colour was similar to that of her friends in Montparnasse, including Amadeo Modigliani, Chaïm Soutine and Ossip Zadkine. She married the latter in the summer of 1920.
| Artist |
Valentine Prax
RKD
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| Title | Landscape in Southern France |
| Date | ca. 1920 |
| Period | 20th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signatures (names) bottom right: V. Prax |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 2004-D |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2004-D |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/5510/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300015636 landscapes AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
25G11
groups of trees
Iconclass
25G3 trees Iconclass 25H1 landscapes in the temperate zone Iconclass 25H113 (high) hill Iconclass 25H114 low hill country Iconclass 25H15 forest, wood Iconclass 25I3 farm or solitary house in landscape Iconclass 300015636 landscapes AAT 41A17 farm (building) Iconclass 41A171 barn Iconclass 41A54 fence, wall, paling Iconclass 46C11 road, path Iconclass 61D(FRANCE) geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (FRANCE) Iconclass |
| School / Style |
Expressionist (style)
AAT
Modernist AAT |
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