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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, a few dates

1898 born on May 16 1898 in Paris
1907
1917
1920
1923
1924 first personal exhibition and first sales
1927 exclusivity contract with Paul Guillaume
1928
1930
1934
1940
1943
1945 passion for print and etching
works on many illustrated books for the parisien editor Georges Blaizot
1947
1949 sets up a process between print and painting that he calls "originaux multiples until 1953
1956
1958 exclusivity contract with Michel Couturier
1960 receives the main international price for painting at the Venice Biennal
1961
1964 retrospective at the museum of modern art in Paris
died on July 21st 1964