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Spaightwood Galleries
Last updated: 8/8/06
Georges Rouault (French, 1871-1958)
"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)
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Tête d'une jeune fille (Rouault Livres, 236-7; full-page illustration). 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. Signed in the stone. Image size: 344x261mm. Price: $600.
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Couverture I pour Verve 4 (Rouault Livres, 234-35; full-page illustration). 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. Image size: 364x263mm. Price: $450.
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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. Image size: 364x263mm. Price: $450.
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Le poisson volant / The flying fish (C&R 23c). Original etching, 1928. 225 pencil-signed impressions (175 on Van Gelder and 50 onjapon); there were also 305 portfolios for Reincarnations of Père Ubu (1935) containing suites of the etcings on Arches and Rives papers. Illustrated Georges Rouault: Paintings and Prints (Museum of Modern Art, 1947). Image size: 212x307mm. Price: $975.
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Christ on the Cross. 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 numbered proof in an edition of 100 without text apart from the book. Image size: 121x196mm. Price: $450.
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For a review of the show that concludes, "Art exhibits in Madison rarely get this good," click review.
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Spaightwood Galleries, Inc.
To purchase, call us at 1-800-809-3343 (508-529-2511 in Upton MA & vicinity) or send an email to sptwd@verizon.net. We accept AmericanExpress, DiscoverCard, MasterCard, and Visa.
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: flexible. Call for availability. Browsers and guests are welcome.
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