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    • Georges Rouault (1871-1958)
    Lot 413 | PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTION  Read more

    Georges Rouault (1871-1958)

    Passion ou Stella Matutina

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    USD 146,500

    Estimate

    USD 60,000 - USD 80,000

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    Georges Rouault (1871-1958)
    Passion ou Stella Matutina
    signed 'G Rouault' (lower right); titled 'Stella Matutina' (on the reverse); titled again 'Stella Matutina' (on the stretcher)
    oil on paper laid down by the artist on canvas
    9 7/8 x 16 7/8 in. (25.1 x 42.9 cm.)
    Painted in 1938

    Provenance

    Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
    Perls Galleries, New York.
    Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner.

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    P. Courthion, Georges Rouault, Including a catalogue of works prepared with the collaboration of Isabelle Rouault, New York, 1962, p. 466, no. 340 (illustrated, p. 436; with incorrect dimensions).
    B. Dorival and I. Rouault, Rouault, L'oeuvre peint, Monte-Carlo, 1988, vol. II, p. 120, no. 1746 (illustrated; with incorrect dimensions).


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    PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTION 

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