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Jean Fautrier

Body and Soul, 1957

East Building, Upper Level - Gallery 407A

Medium

oil and varnish with sand and dry pigment on paper mounted on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 96.5 x 129.8 cm (38 x 51 1/8 in.)

framed: 104.1 x 138 x 5.1 cm (41 x 54 5/16 x 2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Glenstone Foundation

Accession Number

2003.138.1

Artists / Makers

Jean Fautrier (painter) French, 1898 - 1964

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Inscription

lower right: Fautrier 57

Provenance

(Galerie 22, Düsseldorf).[1] private collection, Paris, at least in 1960.[2] Mr. and Mrs. de Calatchi, Neuilly-sur-Seine, at least in 1980.[3] private collection, Paris; purchased 11 December 2003 through (Galerie Malingue, Paris) by NGA.

[1] According to provenance provided by Galerie Malingue.

[2] The painting was lent to the 1960 Venice Biennale by a private collection in Paris. It was lent to a 1958 exhibition in Leverkusen, Germany, by "Coll. A. E" that may or may not be the same collection.

[3] Mr. and Mrs. de Calatchi lent the painting to a 1980 exhibition in Cologne.

Associated Names

Galerie 22
Galerie Malingue
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)
de Calatchi, Mr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

1957: Fautrier, 30 années de figuration informelle, Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, 1957.

1958: Fautrier, 1928 to 1958, Institute of Contemporary Art Gallery, London, June-August 1958, no. 11.

1958: Jean Fautrier, Städtisches Museum, Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, November-December 1958, unnumbered catalogue.

1959: Dokumenta II, Kunst nach 1945, Kasell, 1959, no. 4, repro.

1960: XXX Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, Venice, 1960, no. 88 , Room 37.

1961: Fautrier, 10 peintures récentes, Galerie Europe, Paris, June-July 1961.

1961: Fautrier, Målningar-Brancusi, Skulptur, Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, September 1961, no. 1, repro.

1975: Hommage à Fautrier, Galerie Mony-Calatchi, Paris, 1975, no. 1, color repro. on cover.

1980: Jean Fautrier: Gemälde, Skulpturen und Handzeichnungen, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Cologne, February-April 1980, no. 106, color repro. 140.

1980: Maîtres impressionnistes et modernes, Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris, June-July 1980, no. 23, color repro.

1988: Maîtres impressionnistes et modernes, Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris, 1988, no. 26, color repro.

1989: Fautrier, 1898-1964, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1989, no. 140, color repro.

1998: André Malraux: Notre ami, Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, 1998, no. 132, color repro.

2002: Jean Fautrier, 1898-1964, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee; Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York; Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 2002-2003, no. 33, color repro.

2014: Make it New: Abstract Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, 1950-1975, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 2014, unnumbered catalogue.