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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Georges Rouault

Tête de clown

Auction Closed

May 17, 10:38 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Georges Rouault

1871 - 1958


Tête de clown

signed G. Rouault (lower right)

oil on paper mounted on canvas

25⅜ by 19⅜ in.

64.5 by 49.2 cm.

Executed in 1939.

Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Silvan Kocher, Solothurn, Switzerland
Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above)
Christie's, London, 23 June 1986, lot 45 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Bernard Dorival and Isabelle Rouault, Rouault, L'Oeuvre peint, vol. II, Monaco 1988, no. 1970, p. 167, illustrated