Jean Fautrier : Catalogue Raisonné De L'oeuvre Peint

A major 20th-century artist trained at the Royal Academy in London, Jean Fautrier (1898-1964) came to the attention of collector Jeanne Castel in 1923. His style was initially figurative, playing on contrasts of light. He drew on reality in order to transform it, renewing the genres of landscape, still life and nudes between the wars. A few years later, his approach changed radically and became much more abstract. He inaugurated the so-called informal art movement, in which he played with pictorial matter and combined different materials, creating visions of extraordinary materiality.

Close to the greatest intellectual figures of his time, such as Jean Paulhan, Paul Éluard, Francis Ponge, René Char and André Malraux, Fautrier never ceased to produce works of remarkable force and commitment.

Featuring an extraordinarily comprehensive iconography, this first catalogue raisonné of Fautrier's paintings lists the technique, provenance, exhibitions and bibliography of each work. It also includes a detailed biography, technical analyses, scientific reference texts and transcriptions of interviews and broadcasts from the period.