Annie Hurel Proszynska was born in 1924 in Nogent-sur-Marne. Raised, with her four sisters, in a house near the Bois de Vincennes, the five girls lived in a friendly and caring environment. As a young woman, she entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris in Nicod's studio, before turning to painting, then engraving. She started with a student of Stanley William Hayter (

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  Annie Hurel Proszynska was born in 1924 in Nogent-sur-Marne. Raised, with her four sisters, in a house near the Bois de Vincennes, the five girls lived in a friendly and caring environment. As a young woman, she entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris in Nicod's studio, before turning to painting, then engraving. She started with a student of Stanley William Hayter (Atelier 17), before completing her training in Marseille, with Jacques Hallez in Luminy.
  After living in Paris, Orleans and Le Havre, according to the appointments of her husband (doctor), the couple settled permanently in Nice in 1964.
  From the 1950s, Annie Proszynska participated in group exhibitions at the Hamon Gallery in Le Havre, then presented her paintings at the Yves Michel Gallery (Paris), at the Salon d'Automne in 1960, at the Salon des Femmes Peintres in 1961 and at the 1st Biennial of Engraving in Cracow in 1966. The color palette of her painting is appreciated by the critics, but it is the engraving which is particularly dear to her heart; in the 70s, she definitively turns to this discipline and affirms her taste for the work of copper and large formats. She draws her inspiration not only from her travels on the shores of the Mediterranean, from her culture of the ancient worlds, but also from her practice of yoga and her passion for sailing. For the artist, the intelligence between Heaven and Earth is not abolished.Personal exhibitions will be dedicated to him at Michel Kieffer in Paris and, in Nice, at Claude Ras-Allard, then at Jacques Matarasso. The National Library and the Maisons de la Culture of Grenoble and Le Havre acquired some of her engravings. She is present in Malmö, Milan, Basel, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, ..., participates in the FIAC and the print fair in Dusseldorf. In 1981, the Salon des artistes français commissioned 160 copies of "Cérémonie" printed in her studio for the Bibliophiles de France.Annie Proszynska published many books with writers she was close to, or from old texts; she asserted her personality and her originality in the realization of bibliophile works for which she was responsible for the layout and printing. She plays with the overprinting of cut-out forms, sketched silhouettes and flat tints that are enhanced by powerful ideograms.At the end of the 90s, failing health kept her away from her press; she never returned to her studio. Annie Hurel Proszynska withdrew to the heights of Nice, and died in June 2008.
  
  

  

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