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Rouault, Georges, illus.
Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description
Cirque de l'étoile filante. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1938
Folio (17 1/4 x 13 in.; 432 x 330 mm). 17 aquatint and lift-ground aquatint and etchings, many with drypoint and/or roulette by Rouault and printed in color by Roger Lacourière, 74 wood engravings after Rouault by Georges Aubert, wood-engraved table of etchings, original printed wrappers bound in; some offsetting on title-page. Red morocco gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, spine gilt in six compartments, top edges gilt.
Folio (17 1/4 x 13 in.; 432 x 330 mm). 17 aquatint and lift-ground aquatint and etchings, many with drypoint and/or roulette by Rouault and printed in color by Roger Lacourière, 74 wood engravings after Rouault by Georges Aubert, wood-engraved table of etchings, original printed wrappers bound in; some offsetting on title-page. Red morocco gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, spine gilt in six compartments, top edges gilt.
Literature
Artist & the Book 271; Castleman, Century 88
Catalogue Note
Copy 56 of 215 copies on vergé Montval (of a whole edition of 280). Rouault had begun this project in 1926, taking the gaudy illusion of the circus to symbolize the grotesqueness of life. His friend André Saurès supplied the text, to which Vollard objected, finally compelling the artist to rewrite the text himself. In the interim, master printer Roger Lacourière introduced Rouault to the sugar lift aquatint process, which he then handcolored; Lacourière then inked the plates in color, using two or more colors in the same range and altering the values and tones as Rouault suggested.