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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Georges Rouault

Pancrace (Tête de clown)

Lot Closed

October 19, 01:42 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Georges Rouault

1871 - 1958

Pancrace (Tête de clown)


with the atelier stamp on the reverse

oil on paper laid down on canvas

26.3 by 18.8cm., 10⅜ by 7⅜in.

Framed: 37.5 by 30cm., 14¾ by 11¾in.

Painted circa 1940.

Estate of the artist
Richard Nathanson, London (acquired from the above in 1971-72)
Acquired from the above by the present owners in 1972
Giuseppe Eskenazi & Hajni Elias, A Dealer's Hand: The Chinese Art World Through the Eyes of Giuseppe Eskenazi, London, 2012, fig. 44, illustrated in colour p. 47 (as dating from 1945-48)
Olivier Nouaille & Olivier Rouault, Rouault L’Œuvre Peint, Paris, 2021, vol. III, no. 3198, illustrated p. 234

London, Eskenazi Gallery of Oriental Art, Georges Rouault, 1972, no. 10, illustrated in colour on the cover of the catalogue