Jean FAUTRIER (1898-1964)

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Jean FAUTRIER (1898-1964)
Bust Oil on paper mounted on canvas Signed and dated (19) 56 lower right Inscribed "Buste" on the back on the frame 46 x 55 cm Insolation of the ink Exhibitions : Kunstforening and Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, "Fautrier 1921-1963", 22 February-15 April 1963, catalogue no. 27 (stamped on the stretcher). Bibliography: Palma Bucarelli, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Fautrier referenced as no. 259 (with a dimensional error). A certificate from Dominique Fautrier will be given on request and at the buyer's expense. It was after a period away from Parisian artistic life that Jean Fautrier presented his "Hostages" series to the René Drouin Gallery in 1945. These works, painted between 1942 and 1943, were the result of his shock at the exactions carried out against civilians by the Nazis, which he had witnessed during the Second World War. From then on, he tried to express what he considered to be infigurable: through this reflection, the effects of matter became the main subject of his works. Jean Fautrier invented the "high paste" process: the material is placed on a support made up of layers of paper piled up, mixed with pastel, glue and oil paint. The paste becomes lumpy and thick, mixing pigments with transparent or opaque inks. From 1955 onwards, he started new series: Objets (1955), les Nus (1956) and les Partisans (1957). With these series, Jean Fautrier inaugurated a new way of representing reality in which he favoured materials and colours over form. He thus fits perfectly into what Michel Tapié called Informal Art in 1951. His new and singular approach makes Jean Fautrier one of the major artists of modern art in the second half of the 20th century.
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