Lot 215
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GEORGES ROUAULT | Solange

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Georges Rouault
  • Solange
  • Signed Rouault and dated 1928 (lower center)
  • Oil on paper
  • 11 1/4 by 8 1/2 in.
  • 28.5 by 22 cm
  • Painted in 1928.

Provenance

Galerie Bing et Cie., Paris
Valentine Gallery (Valentine Dudensing), New York (acquired by 1940)
Mr. Charles Marcus & Mrs. Margaret Nanette Rice, Saint Louis (acquired from the above in May 1940)
A bequest from the above in 1959

Exhibited

Saint Louis, Carroll-Knight Gallery, Inc., Paintings by American, French and English Artists, 1947 (possibly)

Literature

Bernard Dorival & Isabelle Rouault, Rouault, L'Oeuvre peint, vol. I, Monte-Carlo, 1988, no. 972, illustrated p. 291

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper. The sheet is slightly undulating. The lower edge is deckled. There is a layer of light surface dirt. The work is very good condition.
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