Georges Rouault - Danse macabre I
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The three judges, ca. 1936 - by Georges Rouault (1871 - 1958), French
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Illustrations from Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal, Georges Rouault, c. 1937
And yet to wine, to opium even, I prefer
the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts
itself; and in the wasteland of desire
your eyes afford the wells to slake my thirst.
Charles Baudelaire, Sed non Satiata (Unslakeable Lust)
trans. Richard Howard
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Georges Rouault
Crépuscule (dit aussi Le Clocher)
1939
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Georges Rouault (French, 1871-1958), L'Entr'acte [Intermission], 1930-35. Oil on paper laid down on canvas, 17¾ x 13½ in.
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Georges Rouault - Deux prostituees
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Dead Blogging 'Fabricating Modernism' at the Currier Museum
Well the Missus and I trundled up to the Granite State over the weekend to check out the newly installed exhibits at Manchester’s Currier Museum of Art and say, they were swell.
We started at Fabricating Modernism: Prints from the School of Paris (through January 7), which features artworks that “constitute a small portion of an extensive collection of prints committed to the Currier Museum of…
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Georges Rouault
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Georges Rouault le fils
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He drove his Cadillac under the glittering sun. Shadows that might have been cast by all the peoples of the earth flickered over it. He was an American builder and millionaire. The souls of billions fluttered like spooks over the polish of the great black hood. In distant Ethiopia people with dysentery as they squatted over ditches, faint and perishing, opened copies of Business Week, abandoned by tourists, and saw his face or faces like his. But it seemed to me that there were few faces like his, with the ferocious profile that brought to mind the Latin word rapax or one of Rouault's crazed death-dealing arbitrary kings.
— Saul Bellow, from Humboldt’s Gift
page. 389.
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Georges Rouault - Nu de dos
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GEORGES ROUAULT (1871-1958)
Aux gueules cassées oubliées dans les barbelés de la Cité Dorée, 1930
gouache, pastel and brush and India ink on paper
13 5⁄8 x 11 5⁄8 in . (34.5 x 29.5 cm.)
© Very Important Lot
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Georges Rouault
Les Pierrots bleus
vers 1943
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Georges Rouault, Church Interior, 1952
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