Le Clown Jaune (The Yellow Clown), plate 7 from Le Cirque (The Circus)

Georges Rouault, French, 1871 - 1958

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1930

Color aquatint on laid paper

Edition of 270

Plate: 13 7/8 × 9 15/16 in. (35.2 × 25.3 cm)

Sheet: 17 1/2 × 13 3/16 in. (44.4 × 33.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Susan E. Hardy, Nancy R. Wilsker, Sarah A. Stahl, and John S. Stahl in memory of their parents Barbara J. and David G. Stahl, Class of 1947

2014.73.111

Printer

Maurice Potin, Paris

Publisher

Ambroise Vollard, Paris

Geography

Place Made: France, Europe

Period

20th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, lower right, in plate: 1930 / G Rouault ; inscribed, lower left, in graphite: Clown Jaune- ; watermark, lower center margin: BFK RIVES

Exhibition History

Paris/New York in the Twenties and Thirties, Alva de Mars Megan Chapel Art Center, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire, February 16-May 5, 2018.

Recent Acquisition: The Stahl Collection of European and American Art, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 1-December 7, 2015.

Provenance

Collected by Barbara Jaffe Stahl (1930-2004) and David Gerald Stahl (1926-2013), Manchester, New Hampshire; bequeathed to their children Susan E. Hardy, Nancy R. Wilsker, Sarah A. Stahl and John S. Stahl, 2013; given to present collection, 2014.

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