Lot 116
  • 116

Jean Fautrier

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 EUR
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Description

  • Jean Fautrier
  • Précisions
  • signé et daté
  • huile sur papier marouflé sur toile
  • 54 x 65 cm; 21 1/4 x 25 5/8 in.
  • Exécuté en 1963.

Provenance

Jean Fautrier, Paris
Galerie Michel Couturier, Paris
Collection particulière, Paris

Exhibited

Bergen, Kunstforening; itinérante, Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus; Stockholm, Moderna Museet; Göteborg, Konstförening Konsthallen, Jean Fautrier 1921-1963, 1963; catalogue no.52 
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Jean Fautrier Rétrospective, 1964; catalogue, no.70
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Fautrier, 1989; catalogue, p. 149, no.156, illustré en couleurs

Condition

This work is in very good condition. Apart from a few hairlines of craquelures in the purple paint, the surface is intact. Under UV light there is no retouching visible. Colours: the catalogue illustration is fairly accurate although the overall tonality is warmer in the original.
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Catalogue Note

signed and dated; oil on paper laid down on canvas. Executed in 1963.

" La peinture est une chose qui ne peut que se détruire, qui doit se détruire, pour se réinventer."
(Jean Fautrier, Parallelen zur neuen Malerei, in 'Blätter + Bilder', p.56, no.1, mars-avil 1959)