Lot 143
  • 143

Jean Fautrier

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 EUR
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Description

  • Jean Fautrier
  • La Dodue
  • signé
  • huile sur papier marouflé sur toile
  • 46 x 55 cm; 18 1/8 x 21 5/8 in.
  • Exécuté en 1955.

Provenance

Collection Jean Paulhan, Paris
Transmis par descendance au propriétaire actuel

Exhibited

Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Jean Paulhan à travers ses peintres, 2 février-15 avril 1974, no.597

Literature

Palma Bucarelli, Jean Fautrier Pittura e Materia, Catalogo del opere, Milan, 1960, no.226, illustré p.330

Condition

The surface is intact. Under UV light there is no evidence of any retouching. This work is in very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

signed; oil on paper mounted on canvas. Executed in 1955.

... Il n'est pas de clarté, dans l'ordre de l'esprit ou des sensations, qui ne comporte une part obscure, ni de sens qui n'enferme un contre-sens ...

Jean Paulhan
(préface de l'exposition Jean Fautrier - Objets, Galerie Rive Droite, Paris)

Fig.1. Jean Fautrier et Jean Paulhan, circa 1958-1959. - © André Ostier.