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190 - Jean Léon Fautrier
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Jean Léon Fautrier Jeune Fille aux cheveux flous 1940 Bronze. Height 17 cm. Mounted on wooden base (11.5 x 11.4 x 11.5 cm). Signed 'Fautrier' lower right. Stamped "CIRE PERDUE" twice verso. Lifetime cast. - Dark brown patina. Engelberts 17 We would like to thank Dirk Volmer, Bonn for his valuable information. Provenance Galerie Jeanne Castel, Paris (label on underside of base); Collection Lefort, Paris; Private collection, Paris; Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin (label on underside of base); Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia Exhibitions Cf. Düsseldorf 1965 (Galerie Schmela), Jean Fautrier. Skulpturen und Gemälde, ill. on invitation card; Hamburg 1973 (Kunstverein), Jean Fautrier, p. 120/121 with ill.; Paris 1975 (Galerie Mony Calatchi), Hommage à Fautrier, p. 15, ill. no. 28; Saarbrücken 1989 (Saarland-Museum), Paris - Kunst der 50er Jahre, p. 80, ill. no. 39; Paris 1989 (Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris), Fautrier. 1898-1964, p. 162, ill. no. 176; Saint-Étienne 1993 (Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne), L'Écriture Grifée, p. 82 with ill.; Siegburg 1998 (Stadtmuseum), Jean Fautrier. Die Abenteuer des Körpers, p. 20, ill. no. 8; Winterthur 2017 (Kunstmuseum), Jean Fautrier, p. 180, ill. no. 97; Paris 2018 (Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris), Jean Fautrier. Matière et lumière, p. 208, ill. no. 125; Hagen 2024 (Emil Schumacher Museum), Jean Fautrier. Genie und Rebell, p. 293 with full-page ill. p. 292 Literature Cf. Palma Bucarelli, Jean Fautrier. Pittura e materia, Milan 1960, p. 376/377, ill. no. 489; Edwin Engelberts, Jean Fautrier. Oeuvre gravé - Oeuvre sculpté. Essai d'un catalogue raisonné, Genf 1969, no. 17 with ill.
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