Jean Fautrier was a French painter, illustrator, printmaker, and sculptor.
10 Facts About Jean Fautrier
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Jean Fautrier was one of the most important practitioners of Tachisme.
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Jean Fautrier was given his unwed mother's surname and raised by his grandmother until she and his father both died in 1908.
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Jean Fautrier then moved to London to be with his mother.
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Jean Fautrier was disappointed again and decided to do it alone, devoting himself to painting.
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Jean Fautrier was called up for the French Army in 1917, but was discharged in 1921 due to his poor health.
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Jean Fautrier first exhibited his paintings at the Salon d'Automne in 1922 and at the Fabre Gallery in 1923.
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Jean Fautrier produced 34 lithographs, but the publication, proposed by Gallimard, was deemed impossible and the project was abandoned in 1930.
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In 1939, just as World War II was beginning, Jean Fautrier left the mountains, moving to Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, and Bordeaux before finally returning to Paris in 1940 and starting to paint .
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Jean Fautrier died in Chatenay-Malabry in 1964, the same year in which he had made donations to the Musee de l'Ile-de-France in Sceaux and Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.