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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ENGLISH COLLECTION
GEORGES ROUAULT (1871-1958)
Vieille mère pleure maintenant solitaire
Details
GEORGES ROUAULT (1871-1958)
Vieille mère pleure maintenant solitaire
signed ‘G Rouault’ (lower right)
oil on cardboard laid down on canvas
27 ½ x 20 ½ in. (70 x 52.2 cm.)
Painted in 1939
Vieille mère pleure maintenant solitaire
signed ‘G Rouault’ (lower right)
oil on cardboard laid down on canvas
27 ½ x 20 ½ in. (70 x 52.2 cm.)
Painted in 1939
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Theodore Schempp & Co., New York.
Private collection, by 1962.
Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd., London.
Maltzahn Gallery Ltd., London, by whom acquired from the above in November 1972.
Private collection, by whom probably acquired from the above on 27 November 1972.
A gift from the above to the present owner on 1 December 1972.
Theodore Schempp & Co., New York.
Private collection, by 1962.
Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd., London.
Maltzahn Gallery Ltd., London, by whom acquired from the above in November 1972.
Private collection, by whom probably acquired from the above on 27 November 1972.
A gift from the above to the present owner on 1 December 1972.
Literature
P. Courthion, Rouault, London, 1962, p. 468 (illustrated fig. 387, p. 440; titled ‘Figure de femme (pour le Miserere)').
B. Dorival & I. Rouault, Rouault, L'œuvre peint, vol. II, Monaco, 1988, no. 1707, p. 112 (illustrated).
B. Dorival & I. Rouault, Rouault, L'œuvre peint, vol. II, Monaco, 1988, no. 1707, p. 112 (illustrated).
Exhibited
London, Christie’s, Fanfare for Europe, The British Art Market, January 1973, no. 74, p. 16.
Further details
The Fondation Georges Rouault has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
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