Louis-Antoine Prat

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Louis-Antoine Prat
Born(1944-12-24)24 December 1944
NationalityFrench
Occupation art historian, art collector
Spouse(s)Véronique Bardon

Louis-Antoine Prat (born 24 December 1944 in Nice) is a French art historian and art collector, specialized in drawings.

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Early life and education

Louis-Antoine Prat is the son of Georges Prat, a wealthy French businessman. [1] [2] Georges was an art collector: he possessed paintings, sculptures, furniture and drawings.

Georges Prat died when Louis-Antoine Prat was six years old. He studied in both La Sorbonne and Sciences Po. He then followed the courses of the École du Louvre.

The collection

Regularly exposed in France or other countries, [3] [4] the art collection of Louis-Antoine and Véronique Prat in their apartment of the 7th arrondissement of Paris has often been the subject of publications.

Their collection is mainly directed towards French drawings from 1600 to 1900. [2] The first drawing bought by Louis and Veronique was a portrait of Max Ernst by André Breton, coming from the collection of Valentine Hugo. [5] They donated a lot of their collection to French museums under usufruct. [6] [7] He is the first private art collector to have been exposed while living in the Louvre museum. [2]

Louis-Antoine Prat was elected president of the Société des amis du Louvre in 2016. [8]

Selected works

Novels and short stories

Radio drama

Art history

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