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Henri Goetz, a French painter and engraver of American origin, was born in New York in 1909 under the name Harry Bernard Goetz and died in Nice in 1989. He settled in Paris in 1930, attended the Académie Julian and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and worked for a time in Amédée Ozenfant’s studio. His first solo exhibition in Paris was held in 1937 at the Galerie Van Leer. From January 1936, he began making non-figurative paintings, conceived as a form of inventive painting that expresses his inner world without recourse to objects from the real world.
The Surrealist spirit is particularly evident in the Chefs-d’œuvre corrigés, made in 1938–1939. First presented as a complete series in 1975 at the Galerie Jean-Claude Bellier in Paris, they were shown there as part of a retrospective devoted to the artist. During the Second World War, Goetz joined the Resistance: among other activities, he made false papers and also printed leaflets and posters.
His work as an engraver was accompanied by technical research. He developed carborundum engraving, which makes it possible to produce a raised printing plate using powders and dispenses with intaglio work. He also devised processes for collage, printing and fixing pastels. He founded an academy where he taught the art of engraving. Goetz donated works by himself and Christine Boumeester to the citadel of Villefranche-sur-Mer, which now houses the museum bearing his name. He became a naturalised French citizen in 1949.
This profile brings together identity references for Henri Goetz and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
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Oil on panel
Composition sur la plage
huile sur panneau
Catalogue period : 2023-09-06 — 2023-09-20
Published result : 1400 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1000–1500
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Pastel
Abstraction
pastel
Catalogue period : 2022-09-21
Published result : 1000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1000–1500
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Oil pastel
Composition
pastel gras
Catalogue period : 2022-09-07 — 2022-09-21
Published result : 600 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 600–800
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Pastel
Composition abstraite en bleu
pastel
Catalogue period : 2019-12-12
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 600–800
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Pastel
La perte Caussole
pastel
Date to be documented
Published result : 468 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
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pastel sur papier
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 500–600
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Oil on canvas
Composition en bleu n° 29
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2016-12-14
Published result : 1900 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1000–1500
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Oil on canvas
"Nature morte"
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2016-12-14
Published result : 800 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 800–1200
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Oil pastel
Composition
pastel gras
Catalogue period : 2016-12-14
Published result : 1000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1000–1500
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Pastel
Composition
pastel
Catalogue period : 2018-03-14
Published result : 1100 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 800–1200
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Pastel
Composition
pastel
Catalogue period : 2017-09-27
Published result : 1500 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1000–1500
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Pastel
Composition
pastel
Catalogue period : 2017-09-27
Published result : 700 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 600–800
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Oil pastel
Composition n° 28
pastel gras
Catalogue period : 2016-12-14
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 1000–1500
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Pastel
Sans titre
pastel
Catalogue period : 2018-03-14
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 800–1200
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Oil on canvas
Composition, 1954
Öl auf Leinwand.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Ohne Titel.
Öl auf Lwd.
Date to be documented
Published result : 2000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 2700
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Composition abstraite.
Farbkreide
Date to be documented
Published result : 1200 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1800
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Oil on canvas
Composition.
Öl auf Leinwand
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Oil on canvas
Composition abstraite.
Öl auf Leinwand
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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