Three prints from 'Miserere'
Georges Rouault Paris 1871 - Paris 1956
Lot-No. 624
Proceeds : 700 €
Aquatints, 58,5 x 42,5 resp. 43,5 cm a. 41 x 58 cm, all prints sign. G. Rouault a. dat. 1920 resp. 1923, hinged to the mount, unframed. - Comprises: 'Jean-François jamais ne chante alleluia', 'AAu pays de la soif et de la peur' a. 'L'aveugle parfois a consolé le voyant'. - French painter a. graphic artist. After an apprenticeship as glass painter he studied at the Paris academy under E. Delauney since 1890, in 1892 he became master student of G. Moreau. Until 1907 he was member of the Fauves. After many solo shows R. was honoured with a retrospective in the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1930. His works were also on display at the Documenta I a. II. - Mus.: Paris (Centre G. Pompidou), St. Petersburg (Hermitage), London (Tate), Vienna (Albertina), Frankfurt (Städel) a. others. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit a. others.
Georges Rouault: Three prints from 'Miserere'
Georges Rouault Paris 1871 - Paris 1956
Three prints from 'Miserere'
Lot-No. 624
Proceeds : 700 €
Aquatints, 58,5 x 42,5 resp. 43,5 cm a. 41 x 58 cm, all prints sign. G. Rouault a. dat. 1920 resp. 1923, hinged to the mount, unframed. - Comprises: 'Jean-François jamais ne chante alleluia', 'AAu pays de la soif et de la peur' a. 'L'aveugle parfois a consolé le voyant'. - French painter a. graphic artist. After an apprenticeship as glass painter he studied at the Paris academy under E. Delauney since 1890, in 1892 he became master student of G. Moreau. Until 1907 he was member of the Fauves. After many solo shows R. was honoured with a retrospective in the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1930. His works were also on display at the Documenta I a. II. - Mus.: Paris (Centre G. Pompidou), St. Petersburg (Hermitage), London (Tate), Vienna (Albertina), Frankfurt (Städel) a. others. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit a. others.