Lot 107
Georges Rouault (1871-1958)
Lot 107 Details
Georges Rouault (1871-1958), French
TWO PLATES (FROM PASSION), 1939
Two wood engravings en-texte on laid paper; each signed in the plate with artist’s monogram lower right, from the total edition of 270. Text by Andre Suares. Published by Ambroise Vollard, 1939. Printed by Henri Jourde. Executed by Georges Aubert Rouault’s designs. Each Unframed.
Each Plate/Sheet 30" x 20" — 76.2 x 50.8 cm.; 17.4" x 13.2" — 44.3 x 33.6 cm.
Estimate $200-$400
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Literature:
Rebecca A. Rabinow, et. al, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-garde, 2006, p. 403, Cat No. 185
Note:
“On August 7, 1927 Suares wrote to the collector Jacques Doucet about his book projects with Rouault: ‘The contact between my text and Rouault’s plates will be astonishing. Far from finding that a bad thing, I think it will be a strength of the work. ... Rouault’s images and my poems do not look to find one another but are parallel.