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Drouot Estimations

18 - Jean FAUTRIER (1898–1964)

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Estimation

€5,000 - 7,000

Sale fees

26.4%

Jean FAUTRIER (1898–1964) Berthe Léonie PIERSON, seated in profile, pulling up her stocking, circa 1924. Charcoal and red chalk on paper mounted on cardboard. Signed lower right. 52 x 59 cm. Stains and foxing. Small thumbtack holes and minor scuffs. Provenance: Jeanne Castel Collection. Germaine Henry & Robert Thomas Collection. Then passed down through the family. Bibliography: Le Crapouillot, March 16, 1925, special issue, Paris, France, “Le salon des Indépendants,” reproduction on page 08. Giorgio Galansino, Jean Fautrier: A Chronology of His Early Paintings (1921–1942), unpublished dissertation at the University of Chicago, 1973, no. 05, illustrated with a figure. Marcel-André Stalter, dissertation submitted to the Sorbonne University, Paris IV, in 1982, “Research on the Work of Jean Fautrier from His Beginnings to 1940: An Attempt at a Methodical Catalog and Interpretation,” no. 64.

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Auction details

Modern Art, Postwar Art, Contemporary Art & Design
Friday, November 27
02:00 PM
Hôtel Drouot
9, rue Drouot
75009 Paris, France

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Drouot Estimations +33 1 48 01 91 00 bids@drouot.com
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 130,000 lots published

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