Georges Rouault - 20th C. & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session New York Wednesday, November 13, 2019 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Zack Collection
    Margaret V. and Samuel A. Lewisohn, New York
    Thence by descent to the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Chicago, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Paintings and Prints by George Rouault, October 5 - 31, 1945, no. 11
    New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Georges Rouault: Paintings and Prints, April 4 – June 3, 1945, no. 60, p. 116 (illustrated, p. 79; titled as Tragic Face)
    New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Lewisohn Collection, November 2 - December 2, 1951, no. 71, p. 15
    Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1960 - 1970 (on extended loan)
    Boston, Institute of Modern Art (on loan)

  • Literature

    Samuel A. Lewisohn, "Rouault - Master of Dissonance", Parnassus, vol. 5, no. 6, November 1933, p. 6 (illustrated; titled as Figure)
    Lionello Venturi, Georges Rouault, New York, 1940, no. 131, p. 75 (illustrated; titled as Poupée, p. 107)
    Lionello Venturi, Rouault, Paris, 1948, no. 94, pp. 83, 115 (illustrated; titled as Poupée, p. 73)
    Isabelle Rouault and Bernard Dorival, Rouault, L'Oeuvre Peint, Monaco, 1988, no. 1287, p. 40 (illustrated)

213

Sodome ou Gomorrhe (Visage tragique)

signed and dated "G. Rouault 1930" lower center
gouache and pastel on paper
10 7/8 x 8 7/8 in. (27.8 x 22.5 cm.)
Executed in 1930.

Estimate
$15,000 - 20,000 

Sold for $35,000

Contact Specialist
John McCord
Head of Day Sale, Morning Session
New York
+1 212 940 1261

20th C. & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session

New York Auction 13 November 2019