Lot 51
  • 51

Georges Rouault

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 EUR
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Description

  • Georges Rouault
  • Le Père Ubu
  • signed G. Rouault and dated indistinctly (lower right)
  • watercolour and gouache on paper
  • 32.9 x 24.9 cm ; 13 x 9 3/4 in.

Provenance

Galerie Bourdon, Paris
Acquired from the above in the early 1960s

Literature

Bernard Dorival & Isabelle Rouault, Rouault, l'œuvre peint, Paris, 1988, no. 1016, illustrated p. 304

Condition

Executed on wove paper, not laid down, fixed in the corners to the reverse of a printed sheet of laid paper which is attached to the overmount along the upper edge. There is a 1 cm vertical repaired tear to the upper edge of the sheet along with some horizontal flattened creases running across the upper part of the composition. There are two 1/2cm curved repaired tears near the centre of the left edge and a 1cm vertical scratch above the date. Otherwise this work remains in overall good condition.
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