Lot 46
  • 46

Georges Rouault

Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 EUR
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Description

  • Georges Rouault
  • La Sainte Face
  • signé G Rouault (en bas à droite)
  • huile et encre sur papier marouflé sur toile
  • 58,4 x 44,2 cm; 23 x 17 3/8 in.

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie Fabien Boulakia, Paris
Acquis auprès du précédent par le propriétaire actuel en 1997

Condition

Executed on paper, laid down on canvas. There are thin strips of framer paper along the extreme edges. There are some flattened creases in places, predominately to the upper right and left corners. Under UV light, there is one small dot of retouching in the white pigment above the figure left hand eyebrown. This work is in good original condition.
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Catalogue Note

signed 'G Rouault' (lower right); oil on paper laid down on canvas. Painted in 1939.