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Jean Fautrier
"At no time I considered myself as informal, and my research has always been towards a liberated representation."
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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Homme de convictions, engagé politiquement, précurseur de l’art informel, Jean Fautrier s’éteint le 21 juillet 1964 à Châtenay-Malabry, il avait 66 ans. Un iris violet est déposé au pied de sa dernière demeure, en hommage à sa mémoire.
"On ne peut plus s'exprimer à travers la figuration...Alors, il fallait bien chercher ailleurs." - Jean Fautrier
"Fautrier est un peintre qui a pour adversaire beaucoup de peintres, pour admirateurs la plupart des poètes." - André Malraux
"Chacun de ses tableaux s’ajoute à la réalité avec vivacité, résolution, naturel." - Pablo Picasso
"Chez Fautrier, il y a presque autant de peinture sur la toile que de chair sur un visage." - Francis Ponge
"Fautrier n’obéit pas moins aux volontés de l’huile et de l’enduit, à quelque besoin de sa pâte, qu’aux jeux réels de la nature et des rochers, du soleil ou de l’ombre." - Jean Paulhan
"La peinture moderne se contente de l'essentiel, néglige l'éloquence, l'explication, le détail et suggère plus qu'elle ne justifie, tâchant d'être plus passionnante que complète." - Jean Fautrier
Notes of biography
Jean Fautrier was born in Paris in 1898. He studied art at the Royal Academy, then at the Slade School in London. In 1920 he returns to Paris. Influenced by expressionist painting, he will paint with realistic brushwork. Jean Fautrier paints and designs portraits, nudes and skinned animals. His first solo exhibition takes place in 1924.
In 1925, Jean Fautrier becomes a veritable precursor of informel art. He will traverse a period of reflection in which he will qualify for « season of hell ». He will produce a lyrical work, a series of landscapes, of black nudes which Jean Paulhan will say are « more naked than nature ».
During the second world war, Jean Fautrier will be an active resistance fighter. He will go into hiding in 1943 and live in the house of Chateaubriand in the Wolf Valley (Vallee des Loups). He will embark upon a series of collages using various materials, oil painted designs on paper. These works will constitute « Hostages » and « Massacres », a collection of sensitive portraits where the artist wants to capture the memory of the victims.
In the 50’s, his work becomes abstract; Jean Fautrier will continue to « portray » the suffering of survivors and he will resume a series of sombre landscapes. His work fascinates Jean Dubuffet and Malraux. Red chalk drawings, sculptures, lithographs and engravings, the artist, continually working on the edge, treating his works as living flesh. He receives the first prize at the biennale of Venice in 1960.
Jean Fautrier dies in 1963 in Catenay-Malabry in France. A retrospective was dedicated to him at the Gianadda de Martigny Foundation in Switzerland in 2005. The poet Francis Ponge, one of his most fervent admirers, wrote the following about him : « Each one of his paintings sums up the realistic with the vivacity, resolution and naturalness ».
Artists on display
The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
Complete work(s)
Complete work(s)
*« Jean Fautrier pittura e materia », P. Bucarelli, Ed. Il Saggiatore, Milan, 1960
*« Oeuvre gravé - Oeuvre sculpté », E. Engelberts, Ed. Galerie Engelberts, Genève, 1969
*« Jean Fautrier : les estampes », R.M. Mason, Cabinet des Estampes, Genève, 1986
*« Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint » en préparation par J.P. Ledeur
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To read about the artist :
- « Fautrier, l’enragé », J. Paulhan, G. Blaizot, Paris, 1949
- « Fautrier », P. Restany, Hazan, Paris, 1963
- « Jean Fautrier », MAM de la Ville de Paris, 1989
- « Fautrier 1898-1964 : Territoires du peintre », Musée de Sceaux, 1998
- « Jean Fautrier », D. Marchesseau, cat. d'expo., Ed. Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2005
- « J. Fautrier : La pulsion du trait », B. de Sainte-Marie, M-A. Stalter, Ed. Lienart, 2014
- « Jean Fautrier : Estampes et Dessins », Dieter Schwartz, C. Barnabé Ed. Richter, 2017
- « Jean Fautrier : Matière et lumière », Paris Musées, 2018
- « Jean Fautrier : Estampes et Dessins », Ed. Pagine d'arte, 2018
- « Jean Fautrier », Ed. Connaissance des Arts, Hors série expo, 2018
To read from the artist :
- « Fautrier l'enragé », J. Paulhan, Vidéo Ina.fr, 1962
- « Sur la virtuosité, lettre à Jean Paulhan », L’Echoppe, Caen, 1987
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Stamp by Jean Fautrier
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
+ Autograph
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Private collection / This document is not for sale
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+ A tribute to...
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A tribute to Jean Fautrier
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Homme de convictions, engagé politiquement, précurseur de l’art informel, Jean Fautrier s’éteint le 21 juillet 1964 à Châtenay-Malabry, il avait 66 ans. Un iris violet est déposé au pied de sa dernière demeure, en hommage à sa mémoire.
"On ne peut plus s'exprimer à travers la figuration...Alors, il fallait bien chercher ailleurs." - Jean Fautrier
"Fautrier est un peintre qui a pour adversaire beaucoup de peintres, pour admirateurs la plupart des poètes." - André Malraux
"Chacun de ses tableaux s’ajoute à la réalité avec vivacité, résolution, naturel." - Pablo Picasso
"Chez Fautrier, il y a presque autant de peinture sur la toile que de chair sur un visage." - Francis Ponge
"Fautrier n’obéit pas moins aux volontés de l’huile et de l’enduit, à quelque besoin de sa pâte, qu’aux jeux réels de la nature et des rochers, du soleil ou de l’ombre." - Jean Paulhan
"La peinture moderne se contente de l'essentiel, néglige l'éloquence, l'explication, le détail et suggère plus qu'elle ne justifie, tâchant d'être plus passionnante que complète." - Jean Fautrier
Art movements
+ LYRIC ART, ABSTRACT, TACHISM / 1950-1960 / Jackson Pollock, Emil Schumacher, etc.
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