1944, Jean Fautrier, L'Écorché (The Flayed) -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: This painting is part of the Hostages series exhibited in the René Drouin gallery in 1945 as a testimony to Nazi barbarity.
From the early 1940s on, Jean Fautrier worked on the flat, superimposing thick layers of whitening, oil and glue on paper, into which he blended other materials. On this rough base, he freely inscribed graphic elements, blurred contours and traces. L'Écorché is one of the rare pictures in the series to engage with representation of whole bodies, albeit mutilated. The lightness of the colours and the freedom of line contrast with the atrocity of the subject.
1944, Jean Fautrier, L'Écorché (The Flayed) -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: This painting is part of the Hostages series exhibited in the René Drouin gallery in 1945 as a testimony to Nazi barbarity.
From the early 1940s on, Jean Fautrier worked on the flat, superimposing thick layers of whitening, oil and glue on paper, into which he blended other materials. On this rough base, he freely inscribed graphic elements, blurred contours and traces. L'Écorché is one of the rare pictures in the series to engage with representation of whole bodies, albeit mutilated. The lightness of the colours and the freedom of line contrast with the atrocity of the subject.