Jean FAUTRIER (1898–1964) Berthe Léonie PIERSON, seated in profile, pulling up her stocking, circa 1924. Charcoal and red chalk on paper mounted on cardboard. Signed lower right. 52 x 59 cm. Stains and foxing. Small thumbtack holes and minor scuffs. Provenance: Jeanne Castel Collection. Germaine Henry & Robert Thomas Collection. Then passed down through the family. Bibliography: Le Crapouillot, March 16, 1925, special issue, Paris, France, “Le salon des Indépendants,” reproduction on page 08. Giorgio Galansino, Jean Fautrier: A Chronology of His Early Paintings (1921–1942), unpublished dissertation at the University of Chicago, 1973, no. 05, illustrated with a figure. Marcel-André Stalter, dissertation submitted to the Sorbonne University, Paris IV, in 1982, “Research on the Work of Jean Fautrier from His Beginnings to 1940: An Attempt at a Methodical Catalog and Interpretation,” no. 64.