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Jean Fautrier
Tête, 1935.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 12,000 / $ 13,920 Sold:
€ 103,200 / $ 119,711 (incl. surcharge)
194
Jean Fautrier
Tête, 1935.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 12,000 / $ 13,920 Sold:
€ 103,200 / $ 119,711 (incl. surcharge)
Jean Fautrier
1898 - 1964
Tête. 1935.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the upper left. 26.8 x 19 cm (10.5 x 7.4 in).
• One of only eight paintings the pioneer of Informalism created in 1935.
• For financial reasons, Fautrier worked as a ski instructor in Tignes in 1935.
• In the mid-1930s, Jean Fautrier developed a highly structured, scriptural style.
• With this treatment of materials, he paved the way for artists such as Tapiés, Dubuffet, and Schumacher.
PROVENANCE: Artist's estate.
Private collection, Paris ( inherited from the above in 1964).
Private collection, Berlin (acquired in 1994, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin).
EXHIBITION: Jean Fautrier, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, May 25–September 24, 1989, cat. no. 71 (with ill.; with the label).
From the holdings of Galerie Michael Haas, Art Basel, June 15–20, 1994.
LITERATURE: Marie-José Lefort, Fautrier: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris 2023, CR no. 488 (illustrated).
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Giorgio Galansino, Jean Fautrier, a chronology of his early paintings, Chicago 1973, no. 111.
Marcel-André Stalter, Recherches sur la vie et l’oeuvre de Jean Fautrier (1898-1964) et leurs commencements à 1940. Essai de catalogue méthodique et d’interprétation, Paris 1982, no. 503.
"Fautrier, on the other hand, did not really become abstract; the reference to representational art remained recognizable even in the titles of his works. That is why I felt much closer to Fautrier, who was a hero to me. "
Georg Baselitz, 2022 (in: Marie-José Lefort 2023, p. 13)
1898 - 1964
Tête. 1935.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the upper left. 26.8 x 19 cm (10.5 x 7.4 in).
• One of only eight paintings the pioneer of Informalism created in 1935.
• For financial reasons, Fautrier worked as a ski instructor in Tignes in 1935.
• In the mid-1930s, Jean Fautrier developed a highly structured, scriptural style.
• With this treatment of materials, he paved the way for artists such as Tapiés, Dubuffet, and Schumacher.
PROVENANCE: Artist's estate.
Private collection, Paris ( inherited from the above in 1964).
Private collection, Berlin (acquired in 1994, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin).
EXHIBITION: Jean Fautrier, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, May 25–September 24, 1989, cat. no. 71 (with ill.; with the label).
From the holdings of Galerie Michael Haas, Art Basel, June 15–20, 1994.
LITERATURE: Marie-José Lefort, Fautrier: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris 2023, CR no. 488 (illustrated).
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Giorgio Galansino, Jean Fautrier, a chronology of his early paintings, Chicago 1973, no. 111.
Marcel-André Stalter, Recherches sur la vie et l’oeuvre de Jean Fautrier (1898-1964) et leurs commencements à 1940. Essai de catalogue méthodique et d’interprétation, Paris 1982, no. 503.
"Fautrier, on the other hand, did not really become abstract; the reference to representational art remained recognizable even in the titles of his works. That is why I felt much closer to Fautrier, who was a hero to me. "
Georg Baselitz, 2022 (in: Marie-José Lefort 2023, p. 13)
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