Franck Prazan


Franck Prazan 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, The European [Fine Art Fair|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 Paris|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, 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.

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