Lot number 107 - Hélène DE BEAUVOIR (1910-2001)

Large painting - Helene de Beauvoir (1910 Paris - 2001 Goxwiller)

'Au Paradis des Zebras (1987)', signed and dated, oil on canvas, dimensions approx. 130 x 97 cm, framed, provenance: private collection, Regensburg, formerly directly from the artist's studio, certificate from Galerie Hammer included, see biography: French modernist painter; younger sister of Simone de Beauvoir; admitted to the Académie Scandinave in 1930; studio in Rue Castagnary in 1934 and in Rue Santeuil in 1935. Solo exhibition in 1936 at the Galerie Jacques Bonjean. Exhibitions in Vienna in 1945, Belgrade in 1947, Morocco in 1949, and from 1950 in Milan. Exhibitions in 1953 at the Galleria Bergamini, Milan, and the Galleria Bussola, Turin. In 1954, her work was exhibited at Galerie Creuze in Paris and later at Galerie Synthèse in Paris. In 1978, she co-founded the association SOS Femmes Solidarité. Her works are exhibited at, among other places, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence (Self-Portrait) and the Centre Pompidou in Paris (Neige à Courchevel) in 1958. Other exhibitions include the 2018 exhibition at the Musée Würth, the 2024 exhibition at the Association for Original Etching in Munich, and the 2025 exhibition at the Opelvillen Art and Culture Foundation in Rüsselsheim.
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