Massacre at Sakiet III
1958 · Oil paint on canvas
unconfirmed: 970 x 1950 mm Frame: 1014 x 1997 x 50 mm
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André Fougeron
French, 1913
PaintingRealismSocial Realism
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18
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31
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- • Social Realism
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100 Drawings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960–1961
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1950
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Print Gift of Victor S. Riesenfeld and Matisse: Jazz: Gift of the Artist
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1948
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André Fougeron was a French painter whose social realist works addressed labor, poverty, and industrial life in postwar Europe. Working primarily in oil on canvas, he developed a monumental figural style rooted in communist ideology and working-class experience. His compositions often depicted miners, factory workers, and rural communities with a formal rigor that combined classical drawing with modernist spatial compression. Active from the 1940s through the 1990s, Fougeron's practice remained committed to art as a vehicle for social conscience rather than formal experimentation.
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