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拍品專文
Rouault's biographer Pierre Courthion believed that "the circus figures symbolize the painters own life." (P. Courthion, George Rouault, New York, 1981, p. 252) At about the time that Pierrot was painted Rouault was working on Le Cirque de l'etoile filante, a segment of seventeen etchings in color and eighty-two woodcuts composed in part from childhood memories of circuses.
Although Rouault pursued this theme all his life the acrobats, jugglers and clowns that emerged in the late 1930s are, like this Pierrot, more poised and declamatory while his earlier vignettes of circus life (like the blue period of Picasso) often presented the poignant sadness of performers off-stage.
Isabelle Rouault has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this painting.
Although Rouault pursued this theme all his life the acrobats, jugglers and clowns that emerged in the late 1930s are, like this Pierrot, more poised and declamatory while his earlier vignettes of circus life (like the blue period of Picasso) often presented the poignant sadness of performers off-stage.
Isabelle Rouault has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this painting.