Article: Jean Fautrier at Michael Werner.(New York, New York)(Reviews of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)

The French painter Jean Fautrier (1898-1964) is an anomaly. A fiercely private man, in his early years he made deeply expressive paintings whose simple subjects -- nudes, heads, flowers, fruit -- were elevated to melancholic, even tragic, distinction by his thick applications of paint, often scored and scumbled, which speak with quiet eloquence of the emotions associated with objects of everyday life. His impastoed surface is a stylistic trait that is also recognizable in the later Art Informel work for which he is best known.

Fautrier received considerable recognition during his lifetime. Authors such as Francis Ponge and Andre Malraux responded to his ...

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