Lot 177
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GEORGES ROUAULT | Tête de clown

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Georges Rouault
  • Tête de clown
  • Signed G Rouault (upper right)
  • Oil on cradled panel in painted artist's frame
  • Including frame: 23 5/8 by 18 1/8 in.
  • 60 by 46 cm
  • Painted in 1952.

Provenance

Galerie Matignon Saint-Honoré, Paris
Acquired from the above on January 27, 2000

Literature

Bernard Dorival & Isabelle Rouault, Rouault, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. II, Monte Carlo, 1988, no. 2426, illustrated p. 252

Condition

This work is in excellent original condition. An exceptionally rich and textured impasto is well-preserved and the work remains in its original frame, hand painted by the artist. Under UV light, some original pigments fluoresce but no inpainting is apparent.
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