ID 1059578
Lot 890 | GEORGES ROUAULT (1871-1958)
Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 30 000
La Sainte Face, dit aussi "Le Saint Suaire"
signed 'G Rouault' (lower right)
oil on canvas
14 5⁄8 x 10 ¾ in. (37 x 27.2 cm.)
Painted in 1937
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard Collection, Paris.
His heirs,
Ambroise Vollard's heirs, from whom dispossessed in 1940,
Etienne Bignou & Martin Fabiani, Paris, in a shared account,
Bignou Gallery, New York,
Acquired by the late owners, by 1953.
Please note that the present work is being offered for sale pursuant to a settlement agreement between the current owner and the heirs of Ambroise Vollard. The settlement agreement resolves the dispute over ownership of the work and title will pass to the successful bidder.
Literature
B. Dorival and I. Rouault, Rouault: L'oeuvre peint, Monte-Carlo, 1988, vol. II, p. 75, no. 1491 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Bignou Gallery, Paintings and Gouaches by Georges Rouault, May 1940, no. 19.
The Cleveland Museum of Art; New York, The Museum of Modern Art and The Los Angeles County Museum, Rouault Retrospective Exhibition, 1953.
| Artist: | Georges Rouault (1871 - 1958) |
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| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Georges Rouault (1871 - 1958) |
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| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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