Franck Prazan

Franck Prazan (born 1966) is a French art collector and the owner of Applicat-Prazan gallery in Paris. He specialises in School of Paris, a Post-War abstract painting movement, whose main artists include Jean-Michel Atlan, Pierre Soulages, Serge Poliakoff, Nicolas de Staël.

The Applicat-Prazan gallery regularly attends international modern art fairs, such as artgenève, Tefaf Maastricht, Art Basel Hong Kong, Tefaf New York Spring, Art Basel Basel, Frieze Masters, Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain, Art Basel Miami Beach.

Biography Franck Prazan graduated from European Business School. He then occupied managerial positions at Dior Couture, Cartier International and Philippe Charriol.

In 1996, he joined Christie's France as Managing Director. As such, he oversaw its development from a simple representative office to a fully fledged auction house, moving the company to the Avenue Matignon in Paris.

He succeeded his father, Bernard Prazan, in 2004 and has been running the gallery since then. In 2010, the gallery opened a second site on the Right Bank at 14 avenue Matignon.

In 2017, Franck Prazan was contacted to sell two paintings by Jean Dubuffet and Georges Mathieu on behalf of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York.

Franck Prazan has been a Member of the Board of Trustees at TEFAF from 2017 to 2021.

Since 2022, Franck Prazan seats at the selection committee of Art Basel in Basel.

Franck Prazan also manages the dressage stable Applicat Horses, whose stallion Benji*Applicat-Prazan was the 2024 French National 3-Year-Old Champion. The mare Fiadora*Applicat-Prazan was French 4-Year-Old Champion in 2022 and 6-Year-Old Champion in 2024, Reserve French Champion in 2023, and twice represented France at the World Breeding Dressage Championships for Young Horses — in Ermelo in 2023 and in Verden in 2025. Benji and Fiadora are ridden by Maxime Collard.

Exhibitions 2006 : Schneider, Œuvres majeures autour d’un tableau d’exception 2007 : Mes années 50, Collection Alain Delon 2007 : Présence, silences, hommage à Geer van Velde 2008 : Serge Poliakoff 2008 : Jean-Michel Atlan 2009 : Dialogues l Autour de Pierre Soulages 2010 : Jean-Michel Atlan, les détrempes 2010 : Jean-Pierre Pincemin 2010 : Panorama Jean Fautrier 2011 : 14 Matignon, Exposition inaugurale 2012 : André Masson 2012 : Alfred Manessier, Tours, Favellas et autres œuvres monumentales 2013 : Maurice Estève, works on paper 2013 : Serge Poliakoff 2014 : Georges Mathieu 2015 : Maurice Estève, Paintings 2016 : Zoran Music 2018 : Le grand œil de Michel Tapié 2019 : Justice! 2 chefs-d’œuvre de Roger-Edgar Gillet 2019 : BBB 2022 : Georges Mathieu, Paintings 1951-1962 2023 : Jean Hélion, un florilège 2024 : Camille Bryen, aux racines de l'informel 2025 : Gérard Schneider