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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1972.318
People
Jean Fautrier, French (Paris 1898 - 1964 Châtenay-Malabry)
Title
Trapeze
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1958
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/227532

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions
54.6 x 45.7 cm (21 1/2 x 18 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Signed at all four corners: f 58

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Joseph H. Hazen Foundation, Inc., New York, New York, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1972.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Joseph H. Hazen Foundation, Inc.
Copyright
© Jean Fautrier Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Accession Year
1972
Object Number
1972.318
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Curtis Carter and Karen K. Butler, Jean Fautrier, 1898-1964, exh. cat., Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, CT, 2002), p. 128, fig. 36
  • Daniel Marchesseau, Jean Fautrier, exh. cat. (2005), page 40

Exhibition History

  • Collection of Joseph H. Hazen, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, 08/01/1969 - 09/30/1969
  • Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000
  • Jean Fautrier: 1898-1964, Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, 09/19/2002 - 12/29/2002; Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, 01/28/2003 - 03/29/2003; Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/26/2003 - 07/20/2003
  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 08 Rotation 3), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/20/2008 - 02/08/2009
  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 09 Rotation 3), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/13/2009 - 01/17/2010
  • Modern Art and Modernity, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/27/2016 - 01/08/2017

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