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Winterauktionen 24.–25.11.2023
Fautrier, Jean
1898 Paris - 1964 Châtenay-Malabry.
«Nu».
Ink and Chinese ink, partially washed, on Japon. Monogrammed lower right. Verso on the backboard a label of André Chenue & Fils Transports Internationaux, Paris, for the Gallery Natalie Seroussi, Paris, with the note «Port-Franc-Bâle».
H 32, W 40 cm (sheet). Gallery frame.
An example of several very similar nude-drawings executed in the 1940s.
Provenance: Gallery Natalie Seroussi, Paris; private collection Switzerland.
Literature: Orangerie Reinz, Jean Fautrier, Köln 1989, ill. p. 299 (cf.); Heiner Hachmeister, Jean Fautrier - Les dieux et les hommes - 30 Dessins de 1943/44, Münster 1989 (cf.).

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