# Carole BENZAKEN (born 1964). Canal Saint Martin, 2008. Acrylic on canvas signed and dated on the back. Height : 81 cm - Width : 351 cm Provenance: - purchased in 2016 from Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris ; - private collection, Paris. Note: initially destined to become a theatre designer Carole Benzaken studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris between 1985 and 1990. There, she was trained by the painter Henri Cueco. Her work tends to explore the treatment of images as a tribute to reality, all in a rendering of movement. in motion. Through the use of large formats identity, the relationship between the intimate and the immense and the immense, the link between detail and the gigantic pictorial expanse. In 1994, Carole Benzaken exhibited at the Fondation Cartier and won the Prix Marcel Duchamp in 2004. Her her work is widely represented in monographic and monographic and group exhibitions since 2011. She is represented by Galerie Nathalie Obadia Paris/Brussels since 1993. All bids will include VAT. VAT at 5.5% recoverable on the hammer price and costs for taxable buyers and in the case of exports outside the EC.