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Rouault Galerie Louis Carre #1213234

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 Rouault Galerie Louis Carre	 	 	 #1213234
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Rouault Galerie Louis Carre</em></td>
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Rouault from Galerie Louis Carre, mint condition



About the artist:

George Rouault, althhough not one of the original group of Fauves, is associated with them because of his use of colors to affect the way we see his images. He is also widely considered the most important Christian religious artist of the twentieth century. Rouault, born during the German bombardment of Paris in 1871, regarded World War I as an indication of what people could do to each other if left on their own: the title of one of the prints in the Miserere, his great series of mixed-media intaglio prints, is taken from Lucan's Pharsalia concerning the Roman Civil Wars, "Man is a Wolf to Man." In his paintings as well as in his prints, Rouault shows us that though "We think ourselves Kings," we are more acurately seen as circus clowns, each wearing our own mask to disguise our true nature ("Are we not all convicts?" asks the title of one of The Miserere) from ourselves. For Rouault, what saves us from ourselves, if anything can, is Christ and the Virgin Mary, both depicted throughout many of Rouault's works. In an essay on Rouault's graphic works in the inaugural issue of Print Collector (Fall-Winter 1972, p. 28), F. Agustoni comments on the Miserere: "Miserere et Guerre is the largest set engraved by Georges Rouault, and it includes 58 large aquatints done between 1916 and 1927 and published in 1948. The edition consits of 425 copies plus another 25 not in circulation. Other than being the most ...
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#: xx1286</td>
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<tr><td>Condition:Mint</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:see description</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:USA</td></tr>

<tr><td>Height:22.25</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:15.75</td></tr>
<tr><td>Weight:3</td></tr>
<tr><td>Title: Rouault Galerie Louis Carre </td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Lithograph</td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:Lithograph</td></tr>
<tr><td>Type:Lithograph</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:Brooklyn, New York</td></tr>
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