LOT DETAILS

Materials:

mixed media on paper laid down on canvas

Measurements:

45.67 in. (116.00 cm.) (height) by 35.04 in. (89.00 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed and indistinctly dated

Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie René Drouin, Les Otages, Peintures et Sculptures de Fautrier, 1945 Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris-Paris, 1981, p. 121, no. 236, illustrated in colour Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, La Grande Parade - Highlights in Painting after 1940, 1984-85, no. 75, p. 124, illustrated in colour Toulouse, Réfectoire des Jacobins, Un Art Autre, 1997, illustrated in colour (on the cover of the pamphlet) Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Fautrier, 2004-5, no. 41 (incorrectly titled)

Literature:

Francis Ponge, Note sur les Otages, Peintures de Fautrier, Paris 1946, p. 3, illustrated Yves Peyré, Fautrier ou les Outrages de l'Impossible, Paris 1990, p. 10, illustrated in colour Exhibition Catalogue, Milwaukee, The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art; New York, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery; Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Jean Fautrier, 2002-03, p. 38, illustration of installation view

Provenance:

Alfonso Ossorio, East Hampton Galerie Stadler, Paris Acquired directly from the above in 1963