- Artist/Maker:
- Jean Fautrier
- Bio:
- French, 1898-1964
- Printer:
- Jacques David, Paris
- Publisher:
- Michel Couturier, Paris
- Title:
- Hostages on a Black Ground
- Portfolio/Series:
- Les Otages
- Date:
- 1946, printed c. 1960-64
- Medium:
- Etching on paper
- Dimensions:
- 14 1/2 × 20 1/2 in. (36.8 × 52.1 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Alex Schmelzer and Lisa Rotmil
- Accession Number:
- 2006-27
- Copyright:
- © 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
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In the 1940s during the German occupation, Jean Fautrier worked on his well-known series of paintings, Otages (Hostages), that represents his response to the Nazi atrocities committed on French prisoners. The paintings and related prints depict brutalized, disfigured faces and bodies and act as a chilling indictment of the horrors of war.
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