Rating and value of works, paintings, drawings by Véra Pagava

A Georgian-born painter associated with the new Pairs school, Véra Pagava (1907-1988) stands out for her personal and demanding style. Initially a figurative artist, Véra Pagava gradually turned to abstraction, which she herself defined as "the absolute search for the pictorial transposition of light".

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Rating and value of the artist Véra Pagava

Véra Pagava is a well-known artist among contemporary art lovers. Today, the prices of her works are rising under the auctioneer's hammer. Her oils on canvas are particularly prized, especially by French buyers, and the price at which they sell on the art market ranges from €90 to €40,000, a significant delta but one that speaks volumes about the value that can be attributed to the artist's works. In 2023, his oil on panel Ville provinciale was sold for €40,000, whereas it was estimated at between €5,000 and €8,000. Its value has risen sharply. 

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Artist's style and technique

Véra Pagava's works are distinguished by their unique, personal style and bold use of color. The artist develops her own pictorial language, combining surrealist and abstract elements with organic and geometric forms, while retaining a certain suggestion of reality.

Uncommon but appreciated on the auction block, Véra Pagava's works are skyrocketing in value. Some of her paintings sell for tens of thousands of euros.

Véra Pagava's life

Véra Pagava was born into a middle-class Georgian family in 1907. Imbued with an artistic culture given to her by her uncle, who was close to certain influential Georgian artists, she quickly became passionate about art.  After an initial exile in Germany following the arrival of the Red Army, the Pagava family joined the Georgian community in exile in France and settled in Montrouge.

On arriving in France at the age of 16, Véra entered the preparatory school of Decorative Arts and then the school of Arts and Advertising in Paris. There, she learned the techniques of woodcutting, linocutting and sketching. A promising student, Véra Pagava joined Roger Bissière's studio at the Académie Ranson in 1932. This apprenticeship enabled her to study painting, fresco art and human morphology in great detail.

A few years later, Véra Pagava carried out her first commissions and took part in the exhibitions of the "Témoignage" group initiated by Marcel Michaud. She exhibited painted fabrics that made a good impression. For a few years, the artist worked for a draper in Lyon.

During the Second World War, Véra Pagava joined the Red Cross as a nurse. In 1943, she met Jeanne Bucher, a visionary gallery owner. This meeting was to prove decisive for the artist's career. The two women worked together until the 1960s. At the end of the war, Véra Pagava regularly participated in the Salon des Surindépendants in Paris.

After several influential encounters, Véra Pagava's style gradually turned towards abstraction. The artist discovered a real sense of freedom in this new movement and officially adopted it in the 60s.

From the 70s until her death in 1988, the artist carried out numerous important commissions and collaborated with a large number of artists. Appreciated throughout her career but little recognized by her contemporaries, Véra Pagava is an important artist of her century, leaving an influential mark on art history. 

Her signature

Not all of Véra Pagava's works are signed.

Although there are variations, here is a first example of her signature:  

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