Lot 197
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Jean Fautrier
Le canard, 1926.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 50,000 / $ 56,500 Sold:
€ 63,500 / $ 71,755 (incl. surcharge)
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.
• The Emil Schumacher Museum in Hagen showed the comprehensive retrospective “Jean Fautrier. Genius und Rebel” from June 30, 2024, to January 5, 2025l.
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Marcel-André Stalter, Recherches sur la vie et l'oeuvre de Jean Fautrier (1898-1964) de leurs commencement '1940, unpublished thesis, Paris 1982, no. 261.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/
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.
• The Emil Schumacher Museum in Hagen showed the comprehensive retrospective “Jean Fautrier. Genius und Rebel” from June 30, 2024, to January 5, 2025l.
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/
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Jean Fautrier
Le canard, 1926.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 50,000 / $ 56,500 Sold:
€ 63,500 / $ 71,755 (incl. surcharge)
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