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168
Jean Fautrier
Le godet, 1953.
Oil and mixed media on paper, laid on canvas
Estimate:
€ 50,000 / $ 56,500
Sold:
€ 82,550 / $ 93,281

(incl. surcharge)
Le godet. 1953.
Oil and mixed media on paper, laid on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right. Titled on the reverse. 33 x 41.3 cm (12.9 x 16.2 in).

• From the collection of Dominique Aury, a long-time friend and colleague of Jean Paulhan, editor of the Nouvelle Revue Francaise and a close friend of the artist.
• The magical appeal of material and matter: Fautrier develops the motif like a relief.
• Like Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier can be described as a “material painter”; both are considered founders of Art Informel.
• Comprehensive retrospectives of his oeuvre were shown at the National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, in 2014, at the Kunstmuseum Winterthur in 2017, and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 2018.
• Other paintings from this period are at, among others, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, and the Menil Collection, Houston (TX), USA.
• The Emil Schumacher Museum in Hagen showed the comprehensive retrospective “Jean Fautrier. Genius und Rebel” from June 30, 2024, to January 5, 2025
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PROVENANCE: Dominique Aury Collection, Paris
Private collection, South Germany (since 2014, ever since in family ownership).

LITERATURE: Marie-José Lefort, Fautrier. Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, Paris 2023, cat. no. 725, illustrated in colro on p.405
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Palma Bucarelli, Jean Fautrier. pittura e materia, Milan 1960, no. 218, illustrated in b/w on p. 328.
“When you come back to Paris, I'll take you to see Fautrier's work. (Since Braque, he is the only artist who understands the medium of painting and knows how to handle it).”
Jean Paulhan in a letter to Francis Ponge, 1943




168
Jean Fautrier
Le godet, 1953.
Oil and mixed media on paper, laid on canvas
Estimate:
€ 50,000 / $ 56,500
Sold:
€ 82,550 / $ 93,281

(incl. surcharge)

 


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