Paul Rand
Paul Rand was a Canadian painter.
Based on ArtValue.ca records, Paul Rand's estimated art value is C$20,000 (*)
Paul Rand's work could be available for sale at public auction with prices in the range of C$500 - C$100,000, or even much higher.
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Heffel Auction House Biography and Notes
Born in Bonn, Germany, Paul Rand studied at an art school in Frankfurt am Main. He traveled to Canada in 1912, but with the outbreak of World War I, he was considered an enemy alien and cut off from Germany. He later settled in Vancouver in 1926, working as a commercial artist and taking courses at the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts with J.W.G. Macdonald, W.P. Weston and Frederick Varley. Rand became part of a new generation of artists on the West Coast, showing at both the BC Society of Artists' annual exhibitions and the BC Artists' Annuals at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Rand's work is characterized by a strong awareness of mass, bright colour and simplified form. In his work, the influence of American social realism artists can be seen. As Maria Tippett and Douglas Cole (one of the former owners of this work) wrote in reference to Rand's work, "The canvases of Thomas Hart Benton and others of the American Scene movement show similar stylistic elements and share the same feeling for regional identities." Rest is an exceptional example of Rand's figurative painting - a lush and dreamy nude highlighted by the exquisite rendering of softly-folded fabric.