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VERA PAGAVA BOOTH SP22 Vera Pagava (Born in 1907 in Tbilisi, Georgia) em igrated to Paris in 1923 fo llo w in g h e r fa m ilie s e x ile fro m S o v ie t o c c u p ie d G e o rg ia . P a ris h a d a great influence to the artist who becam e deeply involved with the artistic milieu and avant-garde of the time. Pagava explored an active freeing of the self from form al representations in both life and w ork, breaking dow n the meanings of both her identity as a fem ale artist and her background from her hom etow n. As she neither liked to be defined as a fem ale nor G eorgian artist exclusively. This categorisation, m anifesting as figuration within her work, was left behind with a turning point from the early 1960‘s tow ards abstraction as a m eans to find this escape.: Pagava was known for her experimentation within abstract motives, still lives, portrayals of nature, buildings and her ethereal representation of reality w h ich had a distinct softness in palette an d tou ch . W h ile the titles of her paintings evoked real places, their presence went beyond id e n tific a tio n , a c o n s ta n t o s c illa tio n b e tw e e n p u r e a b s tr a c tio n a n d represen tation . Th e artist gained intern ation al recogn ition follow ing a successful exhibition along side Dora M aar at the Jeanne Bucher Gallery in 1944 and later participation in the 33rd edition of the Venice B iennale in 1966 in w hich she represented France in a separate pavilion.: Considering Pagava's earlier works alongside her later works, one witnesses how her practice became increasingly mysterious, as the surfaces and contours of her form s began to float freely from any obvious narrative or m eaning encom passed instead in subjacent light and colour. Our presentation will m ainly focus on paintings from the 70s alongside several earlier works. Tw o rare works from her still life period from 1935 and 1940, a landscape w ork from 1962 and a w ork from 1963 presenting the transitional stages of her practice. GALERIEKORNFELD Fasanenstr. 26 D-10719 Berlin Tel +49(0)30 889 225 890 Fax +49(0)30 889 225 899 [email protected] Vera Pagava Coupe et form es sur table ca 1935 Öl auf Leinwand Oil on canvas 54 x 80,5 cm | 21 1/4 x 31 2/3 in F r a m e d Provenance: Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris, France GALERIEKORNFELD Fasanenstr. 26 D-10719 Berlin Tel +49(0)30 889 225 890 Fax +49(0)30 889 225 899 [email protected] V e r a P a g a v a La Pastèque 1940 Öl auf Leinwand Oil on canvas 24 x 35 cm | 9 1/2 x 13 3/4 in F r a m e d Provenance: Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris, France GALERIEKORNFELD Fasanenstr. 26 D-10719 Berlin Tel +49(0)30 889 225 890 Fax +49(0)30 889 225 899 [email protected] V e r a P a g a v a Autom ne (Autum n) 1970 Öl auf Leinwand Oil on canvas 81 x 100 cm | 32 x 39 1/3 in Original artist fram e included Provenance: Private Collection Exhibition History: 2001: Musée Pierre Noël, retrospective of Vera Pagava, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges,1 France 1 1974 : 19th Salon de Montrouge. Montrouge, France. May 2 – June 3, 1974. 1 1972 : Galerie Darial, « W orks by Vera Pagava », Paris 7th. May-June, 1972. 1 1971 : 20th Salon d'Art Sacré et d'Expression Spirituelle, Crypt of the Montmartre Basilica. May 10 – Septem bre 30, 1971.1 Reproduced in the monography « Vera Pagava, vers l’indicible », ed. Area, 2010,1p.191 GALERIEKORNFELD Fasanenstr. 26 D-10719 Berlin Tel +49(0)30 889 225 890 Fax +49(0)30 889 225 899 [email protected] V e r a P a g a v a City 1962 Öl auf Leinwand Oil on canvas 45 x 64 cm | 17 3/4 x 25 1/4 in Fram e included Provenance: Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin, Germany Chardin Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia GALERIEKORNFELD Fasanenstr. 26 D-10719 Berlin Tel +49(0)30 889 225 890 Fax +49(0)30 889 225 899 [email protected] V e r a P a g a v a Untitled [Three forms] 1964 Öl auf Leinwand Oil on canvas 81 x 100 cm | 32 x 39 1/3 in Original artist fram e included Provenance: Private Collection Exhibition History: 2014: Galerie ArtisYou, Saint-Tropez, France. 1 1982 : Galerie Darial, « W orks by Vera Pagava », Paris 7th. June-Novem ber, 19821 1976: Galerie Darial, Vera Pagava solo show , rue de Beaune, Paris 7th 1 1972 : Galerie Darial, « W orks by Vera Pagava », Paris 7th. May-June, 1972. 1 Reproduced in the monography « Vera Pagava, vers l’indicible », ed. Area, p. 112. GALERIEKORNFELD Fasanenstr. 26 D-10719 Berlin Tel +49(0)30 889 225 890 Fax +49(0)30 889 225 899 [email protected] V e r a P a g a v a Envol 1977 Öl auf Leinwand Oil on canvas 73 x 92 cm | 28 3/4 x 36 1/4 in Original artist fram e included Provenance: Private Collection Exhibition History: 2019 : Art Paris Art Fair /Galerie Chauvy, Vera Pagava and Marta Pan, Grand Palais,Paris. April. 1 2018 – 2019 : Galerie Chauvy, « Vera Pagava », Paris. 1 1984: 38th Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Grand Palais, Paris. November 6-25, 1984. 1 Reproduced in the monography « Vera Pagava, vers l’indicible », ed. Area, 2010, p1134. GALERIEKORNFELD Fasanenstr. 26 D-10719 Berlin Tel +49(0)30 889 225 890 Fax +49(0)30 889 225 899 [email protected] V e r a P a g a v a Pyram ide 1975 Öl auf Leinwand Oil on canvas 73 x 100 cm | 28 3/4 x 39 1/3 in Original artist fram e included Provenance: Private Collection Exhibition History: 2001: Musée Pierre Noël, retrospective of Vera Pagava, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges,1 France 1 1976: Galerie Darial, Vera Pagava solo show , rue de Beaune, Paris 7th 1 Reproduced in the monography « Vera Pagava, vers l’indicible », ed. Area, 2010,1p.192 GALERIEKORNFELD Fasanenstr. 26 D-10719 Berlin Tel +49(0)30 889 225 890 Fax +49(0)30 889 225 899 [email protected] V e r a P a g a v a Ville ou Lum iere sur La Ville 1963 Öl auf Leinwand Oil on canvas 100 x 89 cm | 39 1/3 x 35 in NOT FOR SALE Provenance: AC/VP collection, Paris, France Exhibition History: 2016 – 2017 : Solo show « Celestial bodies », Galerie Le Minotaure, Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Galerie Alain Le Gaillard. Curated by Matthieu Poirier 1 2001: Musée Pierre Noël, retrospective of Vera Pagava, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges,1 France 1 1982 : Galerie Darial, « W orks by Vera Pagava », Paris 7th. June-Novem ber, 1982 1 1976: Galerie Darial, Vera Pagava solo show , rue de Beaune, Paris 7th 1 1972 : Galerie Darial, « W orks by Vera Pagava », Paris 7th. May-June, 1972. 1 Reproduced in the monography « Vera Pagava, vers l’indicible », ed. Area, 2010,1p.90 GALERIEKORNFELD Fasanenstr. 26 D-10719 Berlin Tel +49(0)30 889 225 890 Fax +49(0)30 889 225 899 [email protected] V e r a P a g a v a Untitled 1982 Öl auf Leinwand Oil on canvas 60 x 73 cm | 23 2/3 x 28 3/4 in Original artist fram e included Provenance: AC/VP collection, Paris, France Exhibition History: 2016 – 2017 : Solo show « Celestial bodies », Galerie Le Minotaure, Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Galerie Alain Le Gaillard. Curated by Matthieu Poirier1 1982 : Galerie Darial, « W orks by Vera Pagava », Paris 7th. June-Novem ber, 1982 1 Reproduced in the monography « Vera Pagava, vers l’indicible », ed. Area, 2010,1p.196 GALERIEKORNFELD Fasanenstr. 26 D-10719 Berlin Tel +49(0)30 889 225 890 Fax +49(0)30 889 225 899 [email protected] V e r a P a g a v a Untitled 1982 Öl auf Leinwand Oil on canvas 60 x 73 cm | 23 2/3 x 28 3/4 in Original artist fram e included Provenance: AC/VP collection, Paris, France Exhibition History: 2016 – 2017 : Solo show « Celestial bodies », Galerie Le Minotaure, Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Galerie Alain Le Gaillard. Curated by Matthieu Poirier1 1982 : Galerie Darial, « W orks by Vera Pagava », Paris 7th. June-Novem ber, 1982 1 Reproduced in the monography « Vera Pagava, vers l’indicible », ed. Area, 2010,1p.196 GALERIEKORNFELD Fasanenstr. 26 D-10719 Berlin Tel +49(0)30 889 225 890 Fax +49(0)30 889 225 899 [email protected] V e r a P a g a v a Rencontre 1972 Lithographie Lithograph 74 x 55 cm | 29 1/4 x 21 2/3 in Ed.1/125 Unframed made on the occasion of first ever Pagava exhibtiion at Galerie Darial Provenance: AC/VP collection, Paris, France GALERIEKORNFELD Fasanenstr. 26 D-10719 Berlin Tel +49(0)30 889 225 890 Fax +49(0)30 889 225 899 [email protected] BIOGRAPHY Vera Pagava focused her life on her work, searching for the essential in her art, Through her contact with the Georgian artists community in Paris, Pagava began the way to be the closest to her inner vision throughout an inventive journey of to study painting, at first at the Andre Lhote Studio and then at the School of Art form, light and colour.