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Jean Fautrier
Tranches d' oranges, 1944.
Oil, pigment and Mixed media on paper, laid on ...
Estimate:
€ 50,000 - 70,000

 
$ 58,000 - 81,200

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Jean Fautrier
1898 - 1964

Tranches d' oranges. 1944.
Oil, pigment and Mixed media on paper, laid on canvas.
Signed in the lower right. 27 x 35 cm (10.6 x 13.7 in).
[MH].

• Fautrier's art transcends the boundaries between painting and relief.
• Characteristic of his unmistakable impasto surface treatment.
• Wonderful interplay of light, color, and matter.
• Formerly part of the collection of Swiss poet and journalist Édith Boissonnas, who was friends with Jean Dubuffet
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PROVENANCE: Édith Boissonnas Collection (1904–1989), Paris (until 1990).
Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel.
Art dealership Wolfgang Werner, Bremen/Berlin.
Private collection, Bavaria (since 1994, Christie's, London).

EXHIBITION: Jean Fautrier. Gemälde und Zeichnungen, Graphisches Kabinett Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Bremen, October 30–December 19, 1992; Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Berlin, January 15–March 6, 1993, cat. no. 8 (with ill.).
Quelque chose de très mystérieux. Intuitions esthétiques de Michel Tapié, Galerie Artcurial, Paris, March 24–May 12, 1994.
Les Figures de la liberté, 1945, Musée Rath, Geneva, October 27, 1995–January 7, 1996, cat. no. 36 (with illu. on p. 85).

LITERATURE: Marie-José Lefort, Fautrier. Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, Paris 2023, CR no. 606 (with illu.).
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Palma Bucarelli, Jean Fautrier pittura e materia, Milan 1960, cat. no. 182 (with illu. on p. 321).
Christie's, London, 4429th auction, December 6, 1990, lot 500 (with illustration, proceeds for the benefit of the Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel).
Klaus Hammer, Gewandelt ins Unwandelbare. Werke des frühen Informellen Jean Fautrier werden erstmals in Berlin ausgestellt, in: Neue Zeit, Berlin, January 15, 1993.
Christie's, London, 5307th auction, December 1, 1994, lot 7 (with illustration).

Called up: December 6, 2025 - ca. 13.52 h +/- 20 min.





Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Jean Fautrier "Tranches d' oranges"
This lot can be purchased subject to differential or regular taxation, artist‘s resale right compensation is due.

Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 34 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 29 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.

Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 29 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 23% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 7 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.

We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.

Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.

The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.


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