Provenance :
Collection of the Artist
His Family by descent
Private Collection particulière, Brussels
N° 64 of the Artist estate inventory list established in August 1964 by Maître Edmond Champetier de Ribes, Commissaire-priseur attached to the borough of la Seine
Stamp of the Sceaux district court ruling the estate on the reverse
Exhibited :
Paris, Galerie René Drouin, Fautrier, Œuvres 1915 – 1943, 18 Nov. – 18 Dec. 1943, n° 23
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Jean Paulhan à travers ses peintres, 2 Feb. – 13 Apr. 1974, catalogue directed by André Berne-Jouffroy, n° 567
Tokyo, Station Gallery, 24 May - 13 Jul. 2014; Toyota, Municipal Museum of Art, 20 Jul. - 15 Sept. 2014; Osaka, The National Museum of Art, 27 Sept. - 7 Dec. 2014; Jean Fautrier, cat. n° 55, ill. f/p col. p. 87
Winterthur, Kunstmusem Winterthur, Jean Fautrier, 26 Aug. – 12 Nov. 2017, cat. n° 33, ill. f/p col. p. 92
Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Jean Fautrier, Matière et Lumière, 26 Jan. – 20 May 2018, cat n° 46, ill. f/p col. p. 106
Literature :
Giorgio Galansino, The University of Chicago (Illinois), Jean Fautrier, A chronology of his early Paintings (1921-1942), March 1973, n°129
Marcel André Stalter, Thèse de Doctorat d’Etat (PHD), Paris IV University, under the direction of Prof. Bernard Dorival, Recherche sur la vie et l’œuvre de Jean Fautrier (1898-1964) de leurs commencements à 1940, essai de catalogue méthodique et d’interprétation, 1982, n° 545
This work will be included in the forthcoming cataloque raisonné of the works of the Artist being prepared by Mrs Marie-Jodé Lefort.
