Art (1900-1945) > Figurative Painting (1900-30s ) Jean Fautrier - Biography

Jean Fautrier
1898 - 1964
Stehende Frauenakte (5 Bll.). 1926.
Pencil drawings (5), laid on cardboard.
Signed (5) and also dated (1). On creme wove paper (1) and on BFK Rives wove paper (4, with watermark). Up to 44.2 x 28 cm (17.4 x 11 in), size of sheet. [KA].
• Expressive nude studies from Jean Fautrier's early Parisian period.
• Stylistic transition between figuration and abstraction: sensual, reduced, immediate.
• Jean Fautrier is one of the founders of Informalism..
We are grateful to Dominique Fautrier, son of the artist, for his kind expert advice.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Günther Förg.
EXHIBITION: Jean Fautrier, En el centenario de su nacimiento, Fundación Bancaja, Valencia, April 28-May 31, 1998, p. 194 (illu.) (1).
Fine overall impression. The sheets are overall slightly creased. Some sheets with tiny to small paper losses in the corners. One sheet with minimal tiny to small tears in the left edge (up to approx. 3 cm).
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