Valentine Prax

Valentine Henriette Prax (23 July 1897 – 15 April 1981) was a French expressionist and cubist painter.

Biography Prax was born on 23 July 1897 (Also cited as 1899.) Her father was French of Catalan origin and Vice-Consul of Spain and Portugal in Bône, She was alone, timid and poor, but she was in Paris.

There, she met Ossip Zadkine, a sculptor of Russian origin, who introduced her to the close-knit world of their avant-garde Montparnasse neighborhood. They married in the summer of 1920. In that same year, Prax made her first solo exhibition at a Paris gallery in April.

As she began gaining recognition among Parisian art lovers, the Galerie Berthe Weill devoted an exhibition to her in January 1924. during the Nazi Occupation of Paris, but she destroyed his paintings "rather than see them scattered by the Nazi regime."