Georges Rouault
Triste Os (Sad Bones)
1934

Name: Triste Os (Sad Bones)
Brand: Georges Rouault
Price: 4250 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Triste Os (Sad Bones) Color etching and aquatint on Montval laid paper, 1934 Monogrammed and dated in the plate (see photo) Edition: 250 References And Exhibitions: Plate 8 from the series "Cirque de l'Etoile Filante" (Circus of the Shooting Stars) The suite was published by Ambrose Vollard, Paris, in 1938 References: Alan Wofsy, Georges Rouault: The Graphic Work (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Art, 1975), 326; Francois Chapon and Isabelle Rouault, Rouault Oeuvre Grave (Monte Carlo: Editions Andre Sauret, 1978), 247 Sheet size: 15-3/4 x 11-3/8" Plate size: 12-3/8 x 8-1/8" Georges Rouault 1871-1958 Georges Rouault was born on May 27, 1871 in Paris in a cellar to which his mother had been carried after the house had been struck by a stray shell during an insurrection. His father was a cabinet-maker in a piano factory. His paternal grandfather was a lover of art, an admirer of Manet and Daumier, who hoped the child would become a painter. When Rouault was a teenager he was apprenticed to a stained glass maker. This early contact with stained glass influenced immensely his later career as painter and printmaker. At the same time he attended evening classes at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and studied painting at the Louvre. He entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts under Elie Delaunay, who died soon after. He became the favorite pupil and a close friend of Gustave Moreau. Moreau died in 1898 and the same year Rouault's parents left France to be with their daughter in Algeria whose husband had just died. Rouault was named Director of the new Musee Gustave Moreau. He turned to painting landscapes; he had a period of bad health which he spent in Evian. Rouault always saw himself as an artisan, an anonymous laborer making devotional images. He used black outline to reinforce the brilliancy of color and expressive gesture in the manner of mosaics or medieval miniatures. He drew freely from various sources in order to give conventual overtones to his modern statement of human dilemma. His preoccupation over the years with the plight of prostitutes, tragicomic clowns and biblical martyrs, who as outcasts from society, suffer the burden of insoluble ethical demands, reflects the existential dread of despair he, as an artist, suffered himself. In 1908, Rouault married Martha Le Sidoner. They had four children. Rouault exhibited with the Fauves, though he was never closely associated with that movement. His work from then until the end of his life was concerned with printmaking, designing costumes and scenery, illustrating books, etc. Courtesy: AskArt Written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California. Sources include: Lionello Venturi in Rouault catalogue, 1940 Master Paintings from the Phillips Collection World Artists1950-80 by Claude Marks

Creator:

Georges Rouault (1871-1958, French)

Creation Year:

1934

Dimensions:

Height: 15.75 in (40.01 cm)Width: 11.38 in (28.91 cm)

Medium:

Etching,Aquatint

Movement & Style:

French School

Period:

1930-1939