This was the first North American Museum exhibition of the work of French artist Jean Fautrier (1898-1964). The exhibition, which opened at the Haggerty and then traveled to the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Gallery, Columbia University,  included 40 paintings and other works in various media covering the phases of Fautrier's development. The works included a selection from the early black period (1926-27), the Otage series (1942-45) and the later abstractions and objects of the informel period (1947-64). This exhibition considered the artist's oeuvre by contextualizing Fautrier's work of the 1920s with that of the École de Montparnasse, a group of Jewish immigrant artists with an expressionist style, and by relating the Otage series to contemporary artistic and literary movements.  The exhibition will be on display at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Gallery, Columbia University from January 28 through March 29, 2003 and then travel to the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University.