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120 Main Street, Upton MA 10568; 800-809-3343

Last updated: 6-23-10
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Georges Rouault (French, 1871-1958): Specials

Gauguin / Camoin / Derain / Matisse / Rouault / Vlaminck
Rouault 1: Miserere / Rouault 2: Miserere 2 / Rouault 3: Miserere 3 / Rouault 4: Miserere 4
Rouault 5: Passion, Fleurs de Mal / Rouault 6: Pere Ubu / Rouault Specials

For an introduction to Rouault in general and the Miserere in particular, please click here.

"The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters": Goya’s Caprichos etchings (1799), Durer's Ship of Fools woodcuts (1494), David Deuchar’s etchings (1786) after Hans Holbein’s Dance of Death, John Martin’s Paradise Lost mezzotints (1823-25), and Georges Rouault’s Miserere mixed-media intaglios (1922-1928)
Tête d'une jeune fille (Rouault Livres, 236-7). Original color lithograph, 1939. Edition unknown. Published in 1939 in the deluxe art review, Verve. The lithograph was executed at Mourlot Frères in Paris under Rouault's supervision. There is a full-page color illustration of this work in François Chapon's Le livre des livres de Rouault (Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1992), p. 237. Signed in the stone. Image size: 344x261mm. Price: $850.
Couverture I pour Verve 4 (Rouault Livres, 234-35). Original color lithograph, 1938. Edition unknown. Published in 1938 for the rear cover of the deluxe art review, Verve. The lithograph was executed at Mourlot Frères in Paris under Rouault's supervision. Signed in the stone. There is a full-page color illustration of this work in François Chapon's Le livre des livres de Rouault (Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1992), p. 237. Image size: 364x263mm. Price: $750.
Couverture II pour Verve 4 (Rouault Livres, 234-35; not illustrated). Original color lithograph, 1938. Edition unknown. Published in 1938 for the rear cover of the deluxe art review, Verve. The lithograph was executed at Mourlot Frères in Paris under Rouault's supervision. Signed in the stone. Our impression was included in a major retrospective of Rouault's prints at the Seton Hall University Art Museum during the Autemn of 2008. The exhibition also included many works borrowed from other museums, including a large group from the Pompidou Museum in Paris. Image size: 364x263mm. Price: $750.
Seated nude. Wood engraving by Georges Aubert for Rouault's 1938 Cirque de l'etoile filant / Circus of the Shooting Star, published by Ambroise Vollard in an edition of 250. Rouault drew the image on the woodblock for Aubert to cut and supervised the production of the print. Ours is a proof without text apart from the book. Image size: 298x198mm. Paper size: 456x318mm Special Price: $350.
The Conversation. Wood engraving by Georges Aubert for Rouault's 1938 Cirque de l'etoile filant / Circus of the Shooting Star, published by Ambroise Vollard in an edition of 250. Rouault drew the image on the woodblock for Aubert to cut and supervised the production of the print. Ours is a proof without text on heavy Arches paper in an edition of 100 apart from the book. Image size: 121x196mm. Price: $400.
Dr. Paille and Prof. Poutre. Wood engraving by Georges Aubert for Rouault's 1938 Cirque de l'etoile filant / Circus of the Shooting Star, published by Ambroise Vollard in an edition of 250. Rouault drew the image on the woodblock for Aubert to cut and supervised the production of the print. Ours is a proof without text on heavy Arches paper in an edition of 100 apart from the book; there is a full-page illustration of this work with text in François Chapon's Le livre des livres de Rouault (Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1992), p. 143. Image size: 121x196mm. Price: $400.
Christ on the Cross. Wood engraving by Georges Aubert for Rouault's 1939 The Passion, published by Ambroise Vollard in an edition of 245 plus 25 HC impressions. Rouault drew the image on the woodblock for Aubert to cut and supervised the production of the print. Ours is a numbered proof (2/100) in an edition of 100 without text apart from the book. Image size: 121x196mm. Price: $600.

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For directions and visiting information, please call. We are, of course, always available over the web and by telephone (see above for contact information). Click the following for links to past shows and artists. For a visual tour of the gallery, please click here. For information about Andy Weiner and Sonja Hansard-Weiner, please click here. For a list of special offers currently available, see Specials.

Visiting hours: Saturday and Sunday from noon to six and other times by arrangement.
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Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Prints and Drawings: Prints by Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Charles Camoin, Mary Cassatt, Paul Cezanne, Henri Edmond Cross, Edgar Degas, Sonia Delaunay, Maurice Denis, André Derain, Susanne Duchamp, Raoul Dufy, Jean-Louis Forain, Paul Gauguin, Marie Laurencin, Edouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro, Berthé Morisot, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Georges Rouault, Ker Xavier Roussel, Paul Signac, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Suzanne Valadon, Maurice de Vlaminck, James A. McNeill Whistler, and others.

Drawings by Albert Besnard, Andre Barbier, Henri Edmond Cross, Jean-Louis Forain, Eva Gonzales,
Marie Laurencin, Maximilien Luce, and Georges Rouault.

Hand-colored prints by Mary Cassatt, Marc Chagall, Sonja Delaunay, Joan Miró, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.

For a review of the show that concludes, "Art exhibits in Madison rarely get this good," click review.