ID 1334677
Lot 516 | GEORGES ROUAULT (1871-1958)
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
Nu (esquisse) ou Olympia
signed 'g. Rouault' (upper right)
oil on paper laid down on canvas
24 ½ x 18 1/8 in. (62.2 x 46.1 cm.)
Painted circa 1905
Provenance
Heuzé collection, France (by 1952).
Philippe Leclerq, Hem, France (by 1957, until at least 1966).
Anon. sale, Ader, Picard, Tajan, Paris, 24 June 1980, lot 32.
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, 3 December 1980, lot 42.
Galerie Taménaga, Tokyo (by 1982).
Acquired by the family of the present owner, circa 1985.
Literature
P. Courthion, Georges Rouault, New York, 1961, p. 413, no. 70 (illustrated).
J. Russell, "Rouault: Man is a Wolf to Man" in The Sunday Times, 2 October 1966, no. 7480, p. 29 (illustrated in color).
Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art présente: Grand peintres, Rouault, Paris, 1966, no. 1 (illustrated; illustrated again in color, pl. 1).
J. Boussac, La Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 6 June 1980, no. 23 (illustrated; titled Olympia II).
B. Dorival and I. Rouault, Rouault: L'oeuvre peint, Monte-Carlo, 1988, vol. I, p. 97, no. 332 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Druet, Exposition de peintures et de ceramiques de G. Rouault, February-March 1910, no. 22 or 23.
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Les Tuileries, 1949, no. 113 (titled Nu).
Paris, Galerie Marigny, Oeuvres de Rouault, June 1950, no. 8.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Georges Rouault Retrospective, March-October 1952, p. 20, no. 8 (illustrated).
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Figures, nues d'école française, 1953, no. 180 (titled La femme au coussin rouge).
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Rouault: Peintures inconnues ou célèbres, 1965, no. 5 (illustrated).
Edinburgh, The Royal Scottish Academy and London, Tate Gallery, Rouault, August-November 1966, p. 26, no. 20 (illustrated).
| Artist: | Georges Rouault (1871 - 1958) |
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| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Nude art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Georges Rouault (1871 - 1958) |
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| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Nude art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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