Cirque de l'etoile filante

1938 (publication), prints dated 1931-1935

Georges Rouault

Author, French, 1871 - 1958

Ambroise Vollard

Publisher, French, 1866 - 1939

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 70 wood-engraved illustrations, 17 full-page color aquatint prints on japan impérial, with an additional suite of the 17 aquatints in black on japan contiennent

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    book: 46.04 × 34.29 × 4.13 cm (18 1/8 × 13 1/2 × 1 5/8 in.)
    bronze on cover: 36 × 18 × 3 cm (14 3/16 × 7 1/16 × 1 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.112.31.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chapon/Rouault 1978, nos. 140-161

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bibliography

1978

  • Chapon, Francois and Isabelle Rouault. Oeuvre grave Rouault. 2 vols. Monte-Carlo: Editions Andre Sauret, 1978, nos. 140-161.

Inscriptions

in ink on justification page: Geurges Rouault / A. Voll- (underlined); wood engravings are signed by artist in block; by later hand in graphite on last free endpaper lower left: OKS.FZT

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