Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Despair, Desire and Delight: Works from an Outstanding Private Collection
Georges Rouault
Danse macabre I
Auction Closed
March 3, 05:01 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Despair, Desire and Delight: Works from an Outstanding Private Collection
Georges Rouault
1871 - 1958
Danse macabre I
signed G.R. (lower right)
oil over a printed paper base laid down on canvas
39.8 by 29.7cm., 15⅝ by 11¾in.
Framed: 62.5 by 54.1cm., 24⅝ by 21¼in.
Painted circa 1938.
Collection Buffaut, Lyon
Galerie Creuzevault, Paris
Dr Georg & Josi Guggenheim (acquired from the above in 1959)
Sale: Christie's, London, 10th February 2005, lot 53
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Bernard Dorival & Isabelle Rouault, Rouault, L'Œuvre peint, Monaco, 1988, vol. II, no. 1935, illustrated p. 162