Jean Fautrier
1898 - 1964
Tête d’homme barbu. 1925.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the upper left. 41 x 33 cm (16.1 x 12.9 in)[EH].

• Typical features of Fautrier's paintings from the 1920s: dark, undefined space in which the face floats and gains emotional depth.
• Exemplary of an experimental formal language full of powerful immediacy.
• Early heads can be found in the collection of the Insel Hombroich Foundation, the Musée Unterlinden in Colmar, and the Musée d'Art moderne de Paris.
• Part of an acclaimed private collection in Berlin for over 30 years.

PROVENANCE: Roncin Collection, Paris.
Art dealer Wolfgang Werner, Bremen.
Private collection, Berlin (since 1993: Lempertz, Cologne).

LITERATURE: Marie-José Lefort, Fautrier: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris 2023, CR no. 65 (illustrated).
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Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Modern Paintings, March 21, 1985, lot 104 (illustrated)
Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, December 3, 1993, lot 686 (illustrated).

In very good condition. The condition report was compiled in daylight with the help of a UV light source and to the best of our knowledge and belief.