Fautrier: Catalogue Raisonné of Painted Works

Jean Fautrier (1898-1964) was a major artist of the 20th century. Trained at the Royal Academy in London, influenced by JMW Turner, and quickly noticed in 1923 by the collector Jeanne Castel, his style was initially figurative and played on contrasts of light. He drew on reality to better transfigure it, and he renewed the genres of landscape, still life and nude (notably with his series of black works) during the interwar period.
A few years later, his approach changed radically and became much more abstract. He inaugurated the movement of so-called informal art, through which he played with pictorial matter, combining different materials, and creating visions of extraordinary materiality.
Close to the greatest intellectual figures of his time, such as Jean Paulhan, Paul Éluard, Francis Ponge, René Char and André Malraux, Fautrier never stopped producing works of remarkable strength, as evidenced by his notable series Otages (1943-1945), Objets (1947-1948), and Partisans (1956).
In 1960, he received the painting prize at the Venice Biennale. With an extraordinarily complete iconography, this first catalogue raisonné of Fautrier's paintings lists the technique, provenance, exhibitions and bibliography of each of the works. It is also enriched with a detailed biography, technical analyses, scientific reference texts, and also transcriptions of interviews and period broadcasts.

AUTHORS

A Jean Fautrier specialist, Marie-José Lefort directed the Jeanne Castel gallery for many years and is still president of the Jean Fautrier Committee.

Konstantina Minou is the scientific collaborator of the Jean Fautrier Committee, an organization responsible for authenticating the works of Jean Fautrier.

INFORMATION

Format: 250 x 305 mm
Number of pages: 628
Number of illustrations: 1,300
Hardcover
Text in French and English

ISBN: 9782376660729