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GEORGES ROUAULT (1871-1958)
Nu
signed 'G Rouault' (lower left)
oil on canvas
32 x 23 3/4 in. (81.2 x 60.3 cm.)
Painted circa 1925
Provenance
Marcel Fleischmann, Zurich, by 1937, until at least 1948.
Justin K. Thannhauser, New York.
Adolph A. Juviler, New York & Palm Beach, by 1959; their sale, Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, 25 October 1961, lot 37.
Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner.
Literature
L. Venturi, Georges Rouault New York, 1940, fig. 138, p. 76 (illustrated pl. 113; dated 'circa 1930').
L. Venturi, Georges Rouault Paris, 1948, p. 115 (illustrated pl. 79, p. 101; dated 'circa 1930').
L. Venturi, Rouault, Paris, 1959, pp. 135 & 85, (illustrated p. 84; dated 'after 1930').
P. Courthion, Georges Rouault London, 1962, p. 436 (illustrated p. 157).
P. Bellini, Georges Rouault Uomo e artista, Milan, 1972, no. 4 (illustrated).
B. Dorival & I. Rouault, Rouault, l'œuvre peint, Monaco, 1988, no. 994, pp. 236-238 & 298 (illustrated p. 298).
Rouault, Première période 1903-1920, exh. cat., Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1992, p. 225 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Paris, Petit Palais, Les Maîtres de l'art indépendant 1895-1937, June - October 1937, no. 3, p. 40 (illustrated).
Boston, Institute of Modern Art, Georges Rouault Retrospective Loan Exhibition, November 1940 - March 1941, no. 64, p. 29; this exhibition later travelled to Washington, The Phillips Memorial Gallery; and San Francisco, The San Francisco Museum of Art.
New York, Perls Galleries, Georges Rouault The Later Years, October - November 1960, no. 2 (illustrated; dated '1926-1930').
Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Rouault, Paintings and Drawings, August - September 1966 ; this exhibition later travelled to London, Tate Gallery, October - November 1966.
Paris, Musée National d'art Moderne, Georges Rouault Exposition du Centenaire, May - September 1971, no. 35 (illustrated p. 75).
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Georges Rouault March - May 1974, no. 42, p. 36 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Manchester, City Art Galleries, June - July 1974.
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