Sale: 591 / Day Sale, June 07. 2025 in Munich button next Lot 197

 

197
Jean Fautrier
Le canard, 1926.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 50,000 - 70,000

 
$ 56,500 - 79,100

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Le canard. 1926.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the moist paint in the lower left. 60 x 73 cm (23.6 x 28.7 in).

• Jean Fautrier redefined still life painting in the 1920s.
• A work from Jean Fautrier's famous “œuvres noires” series.
• Originally from the collection of his art dealer Paul Guillaume, who also represented Amedeo Modigliani.
• Jean Fautrier: a pioneer of Art Informel
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PROVENANCE: Paul Guillaume Collection, Paris.
Wagowski Collection, Paris (until 1971).
Helge Achenbach Collection.
HypoVereinsbank, Munich.
Private collection, South Germany (in 2003 from the above).

EXHIBITION: Jean Fautrier. Ölbilder 1925-1959, Galerie Thomas Borgmann, Cologne, October 17–November 13, 1976, cat. no. 3 (illustrated in color), and Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg, November 15–December 31, 1976 (dimensions here: 50 x 61 cm).
Josef Haubrich Kunsthalle, Cologne, February 23–April 7, 1980, cat. no. 29, illustrated in black and white on p. 81 (dimensions here: 50 x 61 cm).
Jean Fautrier 1925-1935, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, February 11-March 2, 1986; Kunsthaus Zurich, March 15-May 4, 1986, cat. no. 28 (incorrect dimensions: 86 x 60 cm).
Jean Fautrier. Pictures 1926-56, Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne, March 21-April 2, 1989, illustrated in color on p. 13.

LITERATURE: Palma Bucarelli, Jean Fautrier pittura e materia, Milan, in: Il Saggiatore, 1960, p. 286, illustrated on p. 287.
Bolaffi, Catalogo internazinale d'arte moderna, Turin 1976, vol. 2, no. 2, illustrated on p. 24.
Barbara Catoir, Welch ein Tag! Welch eine Tragödie, FAZ, November 4, 1980, illustrated.
Marcel-André Stalter, Recherches sur la vie et l'oeuvre de Jean Fautrier (1898-1964) de leurs commencement '1940, unpublished thesis, Paris 1982, no. 261.
Pierre Cabanne, Fautrier. La matière corchée, Beaux-Arts Magazine, Paris, No. 69, June 1989, pp. 64ff., illustrated in color on p. 69.
Yves Peyré, Fautrier ou les Outrages de l'impossible, Paris 1990, illustrated in color on p. 53.

"Le peintre le plus révolutionnaire du siècle depuis Picasso "
Francis Ponge
“In fact, one always feels only what is, recreating reality through emotional nuances, that reality embodied in substance, form, and color: momentary creations transformed into permanence."
Jean Fautrier, quoted from: www.freunde-der-nationalgalerie.de/blog/erwerbungen/jean-fautrier/

Called up: June 7, 2025 - ca. 16.09 h +/- 20 min.




 

Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Jean Fautrier "Le canard"
This lot can be purchased subject to differential or regular taxation, artist‘s resale right compensation is due.

Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 32 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 27 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
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 800,000 €: herefrom 27 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 21% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
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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