Georges ROUAULT : Il arrive parfois que la route soit belle…, 1922 (plate signed)

By ROUAULT Georges (1871-1958)

Georges Rouault (1871–1958)
Il arrive parfois que la route soit belle… (Sometimes the Road Is Beautiful…), 1922 — plate 9 from Miserere portfolio
Aquatint, scraper, drypoint and roulette over heliogravure, on Arches laid paper. Plate signed and dated lower right.
Size of the edition : 425 + 25 hors commerce
Dimensions:

Sheet : 50 × 65 cm – 19 ¾ × 25 ⅝ in.
Plate : +/- 36 × 52 cm – +/- 14 ⅛ × 20 ½ in.
Condition: Strong impression, deep velvety blacks in the sky and foreground. Full margins, deckle edges intact. Ambroise Vollard watermark legible against the light in the lower left margin. Sheet clean, light toning at the extreme edges. Unframed.
Ref : Chapon & Rouault : 62 — Wofsy : 116
One of only six horizontal compositions in the fifty-eight plates. Rouault returned to this motif after 1930 in a painted variant, oil over an impression of the plate laid down on canvas.

Price : 250,00 € ( 288.00 USD )