Georges Rouault

Lionello Venturi, New York
Galerie Yoshii, Paris
Acquired from the above on September 15, 1998

Boston, The Institute of Modern Art; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Memorial Gallery & San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, Georges Rouault, 1940-41, no. 37
Shizuoka, Galerie d'art Shizuoka, "L'Exposition Georges Rouault" pour célébrer l'ouverture de La Galerie d'art Shizuoka, 1997, no. 22, illustrated in the catalogue 
Barcelona, Fundacio Caixa Catalunya, Rouault, 2004, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue
Strasbourg, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Georges Rouault "Forme, couleur, harmonie," 2006-07, no. 118, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Paris, Galerie Schmit, Rétrospective Georges Rouault (1871-1958), 2008, n.n., illustrated in color in the catalogue
Saint-Tropez, Musée de l'Annonciade, Georges Rouault Paysages, 2009, illustrated in the catalogue

Bernard Dorival & Isabelle Rouault, Rouault, L'Oeuvre peint, vol. II, Monte Carlo, 1988, no. 1763, illustrated p. 123

Executed on paper mounted on canvas, which is lined. The surface is incredibly richly textured. There is a network of stable, thin hairline craquelure notably in a long arc which curves from the left of the tower up through the sky to the upper left corner. There is some shrinkage in the thickest areas of impasto with associated specs of paint loss, notably to the yellow figure at lower right and in the background at center left. Under UV light there is a thin layer of varnish which fluoresces softly although thin strokes of retouching are visible to the largest lines of craqueleuere to address localized spots of paint loss. This work is in overall good condition.
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