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  |  | FAUTRIER Jean (1898-1964) "At no time, I have considered myself "unformal" and my researches have always been towards a liberated figuration" 
    
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    |  |  | Jean FAUTRIER, a few dates |  |  
 
	
    | 1898 | born on May 16 1898 in Paris |  
    | 1907 |  |  
    | 1917 |  |  
    | 1920 |  |  
    | 1923 |  |  
    | 1924 | first personal exhibition and first sales |  
    | 1927 | exclusivity contract with Paul Guillaume |  
    | 1928 |  |  
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    | 1943 |  |  
    | 1945 | passion for print and etching works on many illustrated books for the parisien editor Georges Blaizot
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    | 1947 |  |  
    | 1949 | sets up a process between print and painting that he calls "originaux multiples until 1953 |  
    | 1956 |  |  
    | 1958 | exclusivity contract with Michel Couturier |  
    | 1960 | receives the main international price for painting at the Venice Biennal |  
    | 1961 |  |  
    | 1964 | retrospective at the museum of modern art in Paris died on July 21st 1964
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