Lot 90
Petit nu
Sold
£27,940
Est £20,000 - £30,000 ‡ ♠
Live Auction
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART: EVENING & DAY SALE
ARTIST
Jean Fautrier
Size
34.9 x 27.1 cm (13 3/4 x 10 5/8 in.)
Description

Medium
oil on canvas
Signature
Painted in 1926.
Provenance
Galerie Jeanne Castel, Paris Galerie 1900-2000, Paris Galerie Tendances, Paris Sotheby's, London, 28 June 2001, lot 388 Gunter Sachs Collection Sotheby's, London, 23 May 2012, lot 176 Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
Marie-José Lefort, Fautrier: catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, Paris, 2023, no. 185, p. 169 (illustrated)
Exhibited
Paris, Galeries Tendances, Jean Fautrier, April 1989, no. 3, n.p. (illustrated, titled as Nu Noir) Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Jean Fautrier 1898-1964, 25 May-24 September 1989, no. 14 p. 60 (illustrated)