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Cirque (Circus)

1933

Georges Rouault

Associated Names

Georges Rouault

Artist, French, 1871 - 1958

André Suarès

Author, French, 1868 - 1948

Ambroise Vollard

Publisher, French, 1866 - 1939

Medium

bound volume with 24 aquatints (2 or 3 impressions of 10 compositions, some color and some in black), plus 19 woodcuts (some photomechanically reproduced) on BFK Rives paper
Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Dimensions

book: 45 × 35 × 6.3 cm (17 11/16 × 13 3/4 × 2 1/2 in.)
Accession Number

2014.112.32
Catalogue Raisonné

Chapon/Rouault 1978, nos. 198-205

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Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; bequest of Mrs. Paul Mellon to NGA, 2014.

Associated Names

Mellon, Paul

Bibliography

1978

Chapon, Francois and Isabelle Rouault. Oeuvre grave Rouault. 2 vols. Monte-Carlo: Editions Andre Sauret, 1978, nos. 198-205, plus two illustrations not described.