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Françoise Pétrovitch, 2021 drawing prize from the Daniel & Florence Guerlain Foundation

2021-03-26T12:58:29.084Z


PORTRAIT - It was her poetic ink wash work that distinguished this French artist, already much loved by collectors. A sensitivity nourished by the classics but very contemporary.


This year 2021 will undoubtedly be that of Françoise Pétrovitch, French artist born in 1964 in Paris, who lives and works in Cachan (94).


She begins by being, since Thursday March 25, the winner of the 14th Prize for Contemporary Drawing of the Daniel & Florence Guerlain Foundation.

She will end it by being the first woman to have, next December, a monographic exhibition at the Hélène & Édouard Leclerc Fund for Culture in Landerneau, curated by Camille Morineau, co-founder of the AWARE association (Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions) in 2014.

Françoise Pétrovitch © Hervé Plumet - Semiose, Paris

This self-taught and determined artist, represented by the Semiose gallery (Paris), is well known to art lovers.

In the manner of Marlene Dumas, the Dutch artist who looks at the contemporary world and the history of art through her ghostly painting, Françoise Pétrovitch has created a people of evanescent and sensitive figures that the large washes of ink on paper make vibrate (

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