Lot 195
  • 195

GEORGES ROUAULT | Paysage biblique, dit aussi "Paysage au palmier"

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Georges Rouault
  • Paysage biblique, dit aussi "Paysage au palmier"
  • Signed G Rouault (toward lower right)
  • Oil on paper mounted on cradled panel
  • 13 by 16 1/8 in.
  • 33 by 41 cm
  • Painted circa 1949.

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, Grand Palais, De la Bible à nos jours 3000 ans d'art, 1985, no. 289, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Jerusalem, Israel Museum & Marseille, Musée Cantini, Peindre dans la lumière de la Méditerranée, 1987, no. 83, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Strasbourg, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Georges Rouault, 2006-07, no. 121
Paris, Galerie Schmit, Georges Rouault, Rétrospective, 2008, n.n., illustrated in color in the catalogue

Literature

Pierre Courthion, Georges Rouault, Paris, 1962, illustrated in color p. 482
Pierre Courthion, Rouault, Paris, 1971, no. 47, illustrated in color n.p.
Hiroatsu Takata & Geneviève Nouaille-Rouault, Rouault: The Book of Great Masters, vol. XXX, Tokyo, 1979, no. 13, illustrated in color n.p.
Pierre Courthion, Georges Rouault, Cologne, 1980, no. 47, illustrated in color p. 149
Bernard Dorival & Isabelle Rouault, Rouault, L'Oeuvre peint, vol. II, Monte Carlo, 1988, no. 2506, illustrated p. 275

Condition

This work is in very good condition. The panel is sound. In the areas of thickest pigments there is some minor hairline craquelure. Under UV light: no inpainting is apparent.
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