Jean Fautrier: rapturous texture: an enigmatic pioneer of art informel, French painter Jean Fautrier created a varied and often contradictory body of work that was the focus of a recent U.S. museum survey.(Critical Essay)

Art in America | September 1, 2003| | Copyright

Ever since his thickly impastoed canvases were first shown internationally in the mid-1940s, French painter Jean Fautrier (1898-1964) has generated controversy among critics, collectors and curators of postwar abstraction. Many Europeans viewed Fautrier as the quintessential painter-poet, whose existentialism-tinged works convey at once the trauma, angst and tentative optimism of those years. However, he confounded his supporters in the 1950s, when he began to mass-produce copies of his own paintings as well as those of other artists.

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