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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Georges Rouault

Tête de clown

Auction Closed

June 30, 02:45 PM GMT

Estimate

180,000 - 250,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Georges Rouault

1871 - 1958

Tête de clown


signed G. Rouault (lower right)

oil on paper mounted on muslin

63.7 by 48.4cm., 25 by 19in.

Framed: 86.5 by 70.5cm., 34 by 27¾in.

Painted in 1939.

Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Silvan Kocher, Solothurn
Private Collection (by descent from the above. Sold: Christie's, London, 23rd June 1986, lot 45)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Isabelle Rouault, Rouault l'œuvre peint, Monaco, 1988, vol. II, no. 1970, illustrated p. 167