Prev / Next

Modern & Contemporary Art

Thursday 16 May 2024, 03:30 PM • Rome

124

Jean Fautrier

(Parigi 1898 - Châtenay-Malabry 1964)

Il taccuino del vecchio, 1963

Artist's Resale Right

Estimate

€ 3.000 - 4.000

Sold

€ 3.870

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

tempera on paper
33 x 25 cm

Signed lower right: F 63
The artwork is accompanied by the volume reproducing the autographs of AuguriMonologhettoTaccuino del Vecchio and Apocalissi by Giuseppe Ungaretti printed in 1963, on the occasion of the poet's seventy-fifth birthday, to celebrate which it was executed.

The overall prints of the book is only 43 copies, of which only the first 28, numbered with Arabic numerals from 1 to 28, contain an original tempera by Jean Fautrier.

The present volume is numbered 17 and Fautrier's tempera is presented inside a folded sheet on which is written in green ink: E' sopravvivere alla morte, vivere? Signed: Giuseppe Ungaretti.

On each volume the stamp of Gli inchiostri di Ungaretti and each volume signed by the poet, the translator Francis Ponge, the artist Jean Fautrier and the publisher Guido Le Noci.

Within original parchment case lined inside with emerald green suede, with Ungaretti's monogram in gold on the internal plates.  


Provenance

Rome, Giuseppe Ungaretti collection