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Georges RouaultClown et Enfant (Clown and Child) From the suite Cirque (Circus)1930
1930
$4,800
£3,708.83
€4,287.76
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A$7,607.30
CHF 3,983.83
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NOK 50,587.92
SEK 47,960.91
DKK 32,005.89
About the Item
This artwork titled "Clown et Enfant (Clown and Child)" from the suite "Cirque (Circus) by Andre Suarez" created in 1930, is an original color aquatint, etching and drypoint by renown French artist Georges Rouault, 1871-1958. It is signed in the plate as issue. According to Isabelle Rouault (Daughter of the artist) the total edition was 500. Published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris and printed by Maurice Potin, Paris. Referenced and pictured in the artist's catalogue raisonnes by Rauch #153, Kornfeld, Klipstein Catalog 120, #134 to #144, Soby pages 110 and 120, and Ambroise Vollard Editeur by Una E. Johnson #202 and page #109. . The plate mark (image) is 12.15 x 8.25 inches, framed size is 24.75 x 21 inches. Custom framed in a wooden black and gold frame, with fabric matting, fabric spacer, and gold color bevel. Artwork and frame are in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright. Example of this artwork is held in many museums including The Museum of Modern Art, New York
About the artist:
French painter, draughtsman, printmaker and designer, Georges Rouault created a personal style of Expressionism that gives him a highly distinctive place in Modern Art. Rouault was born in 1871, in the cellar of a house in Belleville, a working class quarter of Paris near the Père Lachaise cemetery, while the city was being bombarded by government troops quelling the Paris Commune. His father was a finisher and varnisher of pianos at a local factory. Rouault's grandfather was an amateur art collector who bought engravings, lithographs and Rembrandt painting reproductions. From 1885 to 1890 Rouault was apprenticed to a stained glass maker, his work included the restoration of medieval glass; the vivid colors and strong outlines characteristic of the medium left a powerful imprint on his work.
In 1891 he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where with Matisse, he was a pupil of Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau, a brilliant and sympathetic teacher. Rouault was Moreau's favorite student and he became the first curator of the Musée Moreau which opened in Paris in 1903. In 1902 Rouault helped to found the Salon d'Automne, an independant exhibition for those artists rejected by the official Paris Salon, where he showed alongside the Fauves.
Although Rouault associated with Matisse and the Fauves, he did not adopt their brilliant colors or their typical subjects; instead he painted characters such as clowns, acrobats, dancers, outcasts and judges in jewel-like colors outlined in thick black lines reminiscent of Vincent Van Gogh. His sympathies were for the poor and downtrodden, and he commented that his imagination was stimulated by "the contrast between brilliant, scintillating things intended to amuse and this infinitely sad life." In 1894 he was awarded the first prize at the Concours Chenavard and, in 1910, Rouault would have his first one man show at Galerie Drouet in Paris. Rouault married Marthe le Sidaner, the sister of Impressionist painter Henri Le Sidaner, in 1908—they would have four children.
Rouault's achieved financial success after Ambroise Vollard became his art dealer-publisher in 1917 and he gained an international reputation through the 1930s. In 1937 he had his first American one-man show at Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York City and in 1938 the Museum of Modern Art held an exhibition of his graphic prints. Rouault adeptly worked in the various printmaking techniques of woodcuts, lithographs and etchings, often for book illustrations commissioned by Vollard.
From the 1930s and on Rouault, a staunch Catholic, devoted himself almost exclusively to religious themes in his art interpreting the works in an almost icon-like austerity with intensively bright colors reminiscent of medieval stained glass windows
Rouault spent the last decade of his life working to achieve the high standard of perfection he had set for himself. After the sudden death of his dealer Vollard in 1939, Rouault eventually gained back some 400+ paintings from the estate, of which, he destroyed 315. Georges Rouault died on February 13, 1958 at the age of 87. He received the national honor of a state funeral.
Georges Rouault work is held in numerous private, corporate and museum collections, including:
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN
Musee d'Orsay, Paris
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, MA
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
National Gallery of Canada
Tate Gallery, London
- Creator:Georges Rouault (1871-1958, French)
- Creation Year:1930
- Dimensions:Height: 24.75 in (62.87 cm)Width: 21 in (53.34 cm)Depth: 1.85 in (4.7 cm)
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- Gallery Location:San Francisco, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: rou/clo/enf/011stDibs: LU666313484062
Georges Rouault
Executed in 1937, Carlotta belongs to a group of portraits of members of society. Unlike Picasso and Toulouse-Lautrec, who portrayed these individuals with pathos, Rouault’s approach was unapologetic and raw. In the present work several layers of pigment can be discerned; the build-up of translucent and opaque layers of paint creates a three-dimensionality that characterizes the artist’s strongest work. Furthermore, the work is highlighted by the deep swaths of black delineating the subject, representing a signature element of Rouault’s portraiture of this period.
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