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Georges Rouault
Description
- Georges Rouault
- L'Asiate, dit aussi Orientale
- Signed G. Rouault (toward center right); titled (on the reverse of the frame)
- Oil on cradled panel in painted artist's frame
- (Including frame): 22 3/8 by 16 7/8 in.
- 56.8 by 42.8 cm
Provenance
Thence by descent
Literature
Condition
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Catalogue Note
The figure's intense connection to the viewer is further emphasized through a combination of rapid, energetic brushwork and Rouault's characteristic build-up of paint, creating a three-dimensionality that identifies Rouault’s strongest oeuvre. Rouault gave this figure even greater vivacity by painting the frame itself with the same color array and decorative scheme that adorned his figure, thereby making her presence one that extends beyond the confines of her panel. Pierre Courthion aptly writes, "When we examine a Rouault, what strikes us first? Above all, the way the paint has been applied: very thickly and with passion, with great sureness, and with spontaneity... the thickly applied pigment achieves a hitherto unknown degree of energy; every form seems to flow directly from the artist's hand into our own sensibility" (Pierre Courthion, Georges Rouault, New York, 1961, p. 234).