Lot 39: PAULE VÉZELAY

PAULE VÉZELAY 1893 - 1984 MEN IN A CAFE signed; also signed and dated 1928. on the reverse oil on canvas 65 by 54.5cm.; 25½ by 21½in.

London, Annely Juda Fine Art, Paule Vezelay Paintings and Constructions, 9th April - 16th May 1987, cat. no.2, illustrated in the catalogue.

Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 1987
England and Co., London, where acquired by the present owner in 1993

Born in Bristol in 1892, Paule Vezelay first became known as an illustrator and printmaker in Britain. A trip to Paris in 1920 began Vezelay's lifelong love of the city to which she would move permanently in 1926. In France she became increasingly involved with the School of Paris and met many of the leading artists including Picasso, Matisse, Kandinsky, Gris and Braque, and lived with Andre Masson from 1929 until 1932.