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FAUTRIER Jean
(1898-1964)
"At no time, I have considered myself "unformal" and my researches have always been towards a liberated figuration"
Jean FAUTRIER - Detailed biography

Jean Fautrier was born in Paris in 1898. He studied at the Royal Academy then Slade School in London. Quickly disappointed by the teaching given in these schools, Fautrier decided to take a workshop and to work alone. He was then considered as the pioneer of Art Informel movement. In 1928, Fautier met André Malraux and the Gallimard editions required him to illustrate a text poetic, Fautrier choosed "the hell" of Dante, and carried out 34 lithographs in colours. Between 1942 and 1945, it is the beginning of a long collaboration with George Blaizot, Fautrier is impassioned for the prints and carried out many illustrated books for the Parisian publisher. It is at that time that Fautrier painted the Otages.

Between 1949 and 1953, Fautrier used a process, half print half painting which he will call "originaux multiples" which will be exhibited in Paris and New York. In 1960, Fautrier received the international price of painting to the Biennial of Venice. Fautrier died on July 23, 1964 in Châtenay-Malabry.