Lot 195 
Raumbeispiel
195
Jean Fautrier
Tête d'homme barbu, 1925.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000
$ 23,200 - 34,800
Jean Fautrier
1898 - 1964
Tête d'homme barbu. 1925.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the upper left. 41 x 33 cm (16.1 x 12.9 in)[EH].
• Typical features of Fautrier's paintings from the 1920s: dark, undefined space in which the face floats and gains emotional depth.
• Exemplary of an experimental formal language full of powerful immediacy.
• Early heads can be found in the collection of the Insel Hombroich Foundation, the Musée Unterlinden in Colmar, and the Musée d'Art moderne de Paris.
• Part of an acclaimed private collection in Berlin for over 30 years.
PROVENANCE: Roncin Collection, Paris.
Art dealer Wolfgang Werner, Bremen.
Private collection, Berlin (since 1993: Lempertz, Cologne).
LITERATURE: Marie-José Lefort, Fautrier: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris 2023, CR no. 65 (illustrated).
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Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Modern Paintings, March 21, 1985, lot 104 (illustrated)
Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, December 3, 1993, lot 686 (illustrated).
Called up: December 6, 2025 - ca. 15.06 h +/- 20 min.
1898 - 1964
Tête d'homme barbu. 1925.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the upper left. 41 x 33 cm (16.1 x 12.9 in)[EH].
• Typical features of Fautrier's paintings from the 1920s: dark, undefined space in which the face floats and gains emotional depth.
• Exemplary of an experimental formal language full of powerful immediacy.
• Early heads can be found in the collection of the Insel Hombroich Foundation, the Musée Unterlinden in Colmar, and the Musée d'Art moderne de Paris.
• Part of an acclaimed private collection in Berlin for over 30 years.
PROVENANCE: Roncin Collection, Paris.
Art dealer Wolfgang Werner, Bremen.
Private collection, Berlin (since 1993: Lempertz, Cologne).
LITERATURE: Marie-José Lefort, Fautrier: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris 2023, CR no. 65 (illustrated).
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Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Modern Paintings, March 21, 1985, lot 104 (illustrated)
Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, December 3, 1993, lot 686 (illustrated).
Called up: December 6, 2025 - ca. 15.06 h +/- 20 min.
195
Jean Fautrier
Tête d'homme barbu, 1925.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000
$ 23,200 - 34,800
Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Jean Fautrier "Tête d'homme barbu"
This lot can be purchased subject to differential or regular taxation, artist‘s resale right compensation is due.
Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 34 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 29 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 29 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 23% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 7 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.
Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.
The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.
Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 34 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 29 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 29 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 23% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 7 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.
Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.
The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.
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