“No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it.”

— Jean Fautrier

Ruhrberg, Karl. 2000. “The Paris–New York Shift.” Art of the 20th Century. Ed. Ingo F. Walter. Cologne: Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH. 269–344.

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French painter 1898–1964

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