Nationality

French

Artist Dates

1871-1958

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Date of Work

1935

Medium

Aquatint printed in color on Montval

Edition #

Edition of 250

Signature

Initialed and dated in the plate.

Collection/Provenance

Art & Design Study Collection

Status

Displayed

Location

University House

Additional Information

Georges Rouault was a major painter in the Fauve movement, whose work stands apart from other French Expressionists because he was strongly impacted by the emotional as well as the formal aspects of Van Gogh’s and Gauguin’s art. In his youth, Rouault received training in stained-glass making and the heavy black outlines that border expressive color shapes in the aquatint, Pierrot, seem reminiscent of medieval stained-glass windows.

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