(1898-1964)
FAUTRIER Jean
Stries, 1964
Etching and aquatint LCD6281
1 500.00€
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Jean Léon Fautrier is a French painter born in 1898 in Paris.
He is, with Jean Dubuffet, the most important representative of the current of informal art (tachism). He is also a pioneer in the technique of high dough.
When his father died in the early 1910s, he moved with his mother to London and was admitted to the Royal Academy at the age of fourteen. In 1917, he enlisted in the army, then settled in Paris where he exhibited for the first time in 1921. From 1927, he produced portraits, still lifes, landscapes, skinned animals, naked or a painting figurative, often dark by the colors used. Forced by the economic crisis, he abandoned painting and became a ski instructor and hotel manager in the Alps. He returns to Paris and resumes painting when war breaks out.
In 1943, arrested by the Gestapo, then released, he took refuge in a clinic for the insane on the outskirts of Paris. In the surrounding woods, the Germans torture prisoners and carry out summary executions. He drew from these atrocities a series of small panels which he calls Hostages. He also creates sculptures, the large Hostage Head will be the last. These paintings will be exhibited in 1945 at the Galerie Drouin.
Guest of honor at the 33rd Venice Biennale in 1960, Fautrier received the grand prize for painting, jointly with Hans Hartung.
He died in Chatenay Malabry on July 21, 1964.
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