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![Rouault, Paysage Légendaire [Mythical Landscape]](artists_l-z/rouault/1.rouault.jpg)
Paysage Légendaire [Mythical Landscape]
1936 Oil on canvas (50.8 x 49.5 cm)
La rixe sur le chantier (Night Landscape)
1897 Pastel and gouache
Rouault was a French painter and printmaker, connected to the Fauvist and Expressionist movements. Rouault was born in Paris, where he studied and spent most of his life. Rouault started an apprenticeship at the age of fourteen, working as in glass painting and restoration. During his apprenticeship, Rouault started taking evening art classes. In 1891 Rouault decided to devote more time to study and enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Rouault studied under Gustave Moreau, an active symbolist painter in Paris. After Moreau’s death, Rouault was chosen to curate the official Moreau Museum.
Profile of a Clown
about 1940–48 Oil on paperboard mounted on panel 66x 48 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Pierrot
1937–38 Oil on Canvas 118.1 x 89.5cm
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After Rouault’s studies he gravitated to a circle of fauvist painters, which included Henri Matisse, Albert Marquet, Henri Manguin and Charles Camoin. In 1895 Rouault began exhibiting in major venues in Paris and was accepted into the famous, Salon d’Automne multiple times.
Clown
1907 Oil on paper on canvas (29.2 x 32.7 cm)
Circus Act
1905 Pastel, charcoal, watercolor, and ink on paper (26.0 x 34.3 cm)
In 1907 Rouault began painting his clown series, which were intended to criticize society’s moral values. Rouault’s personal values began to be shaped by his religious views and the existential views of Jacques Maritain. By 1917 Rouault decided to dedicate all of his time to creating paintings informed by the Christian faith. In addition to traditional painting, Rouault helped to design “The Prodigal Son” a ballet by Diaghilev.
Woman at a Table (The Procuress)
1906 Watercolor and pastel on borrad (31 x 24.1 cm).
The Clown
1907 Oil, ink, and watercolor on cut-and-pasted paper on borrad (40.6 x 32.4 cm)
Clown
1912 Oil on canvas (89.8 x 68.2 cm)
The Three Judges
1913 Gouache and oil on borrad (75.9 x 105.7 cm)
Man with Spectacles
1917 Watercolor and crayon on paper (29.8 x 16.5 cm)
"He was Oppressed, and He Was Afflicted, Yet He Opened Not His Mouth", plate XXI from Miserere
1923 Aquatint, lift ground aquatint, and drypoint over photogravure, plate (58.2 x 41.1 cm)
Shortly before his death, Rouault burned around three hundred of his paintings. His remaining works are extremely valuable and can be found in major museums and private collections around the world. Do you think you own a painting by Rouault? Contact us. We are the Rouault experts.
