17.11.2016 — 14.01.2017

Celestial Bodies

Curator : Matthieu Poirier
In collaboration with Galerie Le Minotaure and Alain Le Gaillard

Vera Pagava

St Germain Space

Not only did Vera Pagava limit herself to the painting, that antediluvian constraint of a wooden panel or a canvas over a stretcher, but she also narrowed her focus to oil painting, and, up to 1960, to genres as traditional as the still life and the landscape. And yet, against all expectations, her art is highly singular, combining formal purity with luminous intimacy. The artist developed this very personal pictorial universe with unfailing constancy and determination, always defying pictorial practices that, setting out to give life to a form of painting that modernity had declared dead and buried, often tended towards the spectacular, whether by expressiveness of touch and the use of more modern mediums such as acrylic, or by recourse to emphatic formats.

Matthieu Poirier

Vera Pagava, La Bataille d'Anabase, 1952
Oil on canvas
51,1 × 38,1 in
Vera Pagava, Vagues, 1969
Oil on canvas
25,5 × 31,8 in
Vera Pagava, Quelque part, 1968
Oil on canvas
45,6 × 28,7 in
Vera Pagava, Un Rêve, 1970
Oil on canvas
35 × 45,6 in
Vera Pagava, Douce, 1973
Oil on canvas
46,8 × 35 in
Vera Pagava, Intérieur, 1970
Oil on canvas
36,2 × 28,7 in
Vera Pagava, Pierre dans le désert, 1963
Oil on canvas
28,7 × 36,2 in
Vera Pagava, Sur la ville ou Ville lumière, 1963
Oil on canvas
39,3 × 31,8 in
Vera Pagava, La ville sans fin, 1970
Oil on canvas
51,1 × 38,1 in
Vera Pagava, Vertige, 1979
Oil on canvas
23,6 × 23,6 in
Vera Pagava, Ascension, 1976
Oil on canvas
57,4 × 45,6 in
Vera Pagava, Untitled (Deux triangles et lune) Soleil gris, 1985
Oil on canvas
76,7 × 38,1 in
Vera Pagava, Sans titre (Trois couleurs), 1982
Oil on canvas
23,6 × 28,7 in
Vera Pagava, Mer Rose, 1967
Oil on canvas
39,3 × 31,8 in

practical informations

St Germain Space

By appointment
53 rue de Seine
75 006 Paris – France
T +33 1 42 72 60 42
F +33 1 42 72 60 49
info@jeannebucherjaeger.com

opening

Thursday, November 17