- 141
Georges Rouault, 1871-1958
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- Georges Rouault
- trio (pierrot et clowns)
- signed
- gouache and brush and ink on tracing paper
- 22.5 by 23.2cm., 8 7/8 by 9 1/8 in.
Provenance
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 18th February 1952, lot 35
Purchased at the above sale by the family of the present owner
Literature
Isabelle Rouault & Bernard Dorival, Rouault, l'oeuvre peint, Monte Carlo, 1988, vol. II, p.218, no. 2265, illustrated
Catalogue Note
Executed circa 1942, the present work is an illustration for Cirque, an unrealised project by the French poet and essayist André Suarès.