Georges ROUAULT : Au vieux faubourg des Longues Peines, 1923 (plate signed)

By ROUAULT Georges (1871-1958)

Georges ROUAULT : Au vieux faubourg des Longues Peines, 1923 (plate signed)

Georges Rouault (1871–1958)
Au vieux faubourg des Longues Peines (In the Old Suburb of Long Sorrows), 1923 — plate 10 from Miserere portfolio
Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure, on Arches laid paper. Plate signed and dated lower left.
Size of the edition : 425 + 25 hors commerce
Dimensions:

Sheet : 65 × 50 cm – 25 ⅝ × 19 ¾ in.
Plate : 57,5 × 41,5 cm – 22 ⅝ × 16 ⅜ in.
Condition: Dense, richly worked impression. Full margins, deckle edges intact. Arches and Ambroise Vollard watermarks legible against the light. Sheet clean. Unframed.
Ref : Chapon & Rouault : 63 — Wofsy : 117
First appearance in the series of the mother holding her child, a motif Rouault takes up again in plates 13 and 42. The bare tree and the working-class suburb belong to the social first part of the sequence, before the Guerre section.

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Price : 250,00 € ( 288.00 USD )