Lot 110
  • 110

JEAN FAUTRIER | Petit nu couché

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 EUR
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Description

  • Jean Fautrier
  • Petit nu couché
  • signed and numbered 8/9
  • bronze
  • 7,5 x 18 x 8 cm; 2 15/16 x 7 1/16 x 3 1/8 in.
  • Executed in 1929, this work is number 8 from an edition of 9.

Provenance

Galerie Couturier, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2004

Exhibited

Hamburg, Kunstverein, Jean Fautrier, 19 May - 17 June 1973; catalogue, p.103, no. 107, illustrated in colour (other edition)
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Jean Fautrier, 1898 - 1964, 25 May - 24 September 1989; catalogue,  p. 157, no. 164 (other edition)
Bremen, Graphisces Kabinett, 30 October - 19 December 1992; Berlin, Kunstandel Wolfgang Werner KG, 15 January - 6 March 1993, Jean Fautrier, Gemälde und Zeichnungen; catalogue, np., illustrated (other edition)
Milwaukee, The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum, 19 September - 29 December 2009; New York, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, 28 January - 29 March 2003; Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 26 April - 20 July 2003, Jean Fautrier, 1898 - 1964; catalogue, p. 137, no. 49, illustrated in colour (other edition)
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Jean Fautrier, 17 December 2004 - 13 March 2005; catalogue, p. 168, no. 99 (other edition)
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Jean Fautrier, Matière et Lumière, 26 January - 20 May 2018; catalogue, p.199, no. 116, illustrated in colour (other edition)

Literature

Edwin Engelberts, Jean Fautrier, Oeuvre gravé, Oeuvre sculpté, Geneva, 1969, np., no. 8

Condition

The colours are fairly accurate in the printed catalogue illustration. The work is in very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné for Jean Fautrier, currently in preparation by Marie-José Lefort, Geneva.