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No image due to Copyright restrictions. | | | Fautrier, Jean (1898 - 1964) France
Tête (Partisan), 1957
Oil and pigment on paper laid down on canvas; 27 x 22 cm Art Informel
UID 102-192
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Biography
French painter, draughtsman, illustrator and sculptor, Fautrier studied at the Royal Academy School in 1912 but left because considered the teaching too traditional. He then entered the Slade School of Fine Art which, in spite of being considered a vanguard school, disappointed him once again. Finally, he chose to work alone and turned to painting, mainly naked figures and still lifes. In 1922, he moved to Paris where, in 1924, he held his first one-man show at the Visconti Gallery. During the 30s, and due to his lack of funds, he had to find other kinds of jobs, leaving artistic production aside to some extent. In 1945, he had his first major success with the series Hostages and, around 1950, he developed the technique of "Multiple originals", combining elements of printing with painting, allowing the production of several versions of the same work. This new technique again brought commercial failure that he would only recover from in 1960 when awarded first prize at the Venice Biennale. In 1961, he received another prize at the Tokyo Biennale and, in 1964, he donated some of his pieces to the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris which, at the end of 1979, presented a major posthumous, retrospective exhibition.
Exhibitions
Jean Fautrier Musée National Fernand Léger, Hungary 01-06-1996 ~ 30-11-1996
Accrochage Nº1, Selection of Portuguese and French Artists in The Berardo Collection Embaixada de França (French Embassy), Portugal 27-04-2005 ~ 15-10-2005
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
Contemporâneos de Arpad Szenes e Vieira da Silva na Collecção Berardo Fundação Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva, Portugal 06-03-2002 ~ 16-06-2002
Nova Apresentação da Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 08-11-1999 ~ 01-03-2000
Durante o Fim - Rui Chafes Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 15-10-2000 ~ 14-01-2001
Arte Cinética / Arte Op na Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 29-09-2001 ~ 31-10-2001
Erich Kahn - Forgotten Generation Jewish Survivor German Expressionist Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 05-05-2005 ~ 09-10-2005
Tudo o que é Sólido Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 07-06-2010 ~ 12-09-2010
Bibliography
Accrochage Nº1, Selection of Portuguese and French Artists in The Berardo Collection, 2005 Published by 90 Graus Editora, Lda. ISBN 9728964013
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Contemporâneos de Arpad Szenes e Vieira da Silva na Colecção Berardo, 2002 Published by Fundação Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva ISBN 9728467192
Jean Fautrier, 1996 Published by Musée National Fernand Léger and Mücsarnok
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