Sale: 605 / Day Sale, June 13. 2026 in Munich → Lot 126000097
Raumbeispiel
126000097
Jean Fautrier
Tête de fille, Um 1929.
Oil on canvas on panel
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000
$ 23,400 - 35,100
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
126000097
Jean Fautrier
Tête de fille, Um 1929.
Oil on canvas on panel
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000
$ 23,400 - 35,100
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Jean Fautrier
1898 - 1964
Tête de fille. Um 1929.
Oil on canvas on panel.
Signed in the upper right. 34.9 x 32.1 cm (13.7 x 12.6 in).
[MH].
• Fautrier is recognized as a pioneer of post-war painting and had a significant influence on movements such as Art Informel.
• He radically reduces the classical portrait: the human figure appears fragmented, almost archaic.
• Fautrier’s paintings are eat, among others, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
We are grateful to Dominique Fautrier, the artist’s son, for his kind assistance.
PROVENANCE: Private collection.
From an Austrian collection (since 2025, Abell Auction, Los Angeles, from the above).
LITERATURE: Abell Auction, Los Angeles, September 27, 2025, lot 195.
1898 - 1964
Tête de fille. Um 1929.
Oil on canvas on panel.
Signed in the upper right. 34.9 x 32.1 cm (13.7 x 12.6 in).
[MH].
• Fautrier is recognized as a pioneer of post-war painting and had a significant influence on movements such as Art Informel.
• He radically reduces the classical portrait: the human figure appears fragmented, almost archaic.
• Fautrier’s paintings are eat, among others, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
We are grateful to Dominique Fautrier, the artist’s son, for his kind assistance.
PROVENANCE: Private collection.
From an Austrian collection (since 2025, Abell Auction, Los Angeles, from the above).
LITERATURE: Abell Auction, Los Angeles, September 27, 2025, lot 195.
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