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Object Details

Artist
Georges Rouault, French, 1871–1958
Date
1939
Medium
Oil on paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions
16 5/8 X 11 1/4 IN. (42.2 X 28.5 CM.)
Collection Object Type
Painting
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
Accession Number
66.4421

[Ambroise Vollard, 1939? (Rouault's exclusive dealer from 1917-1939)]
Edouard Jonas, [1939?]-27 June 1949 (executor of Vollard estate)
Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, 27 June 1949 to 16 January 1956
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 16 January 1956-17 May 1966
Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
LA JOLLA MUSEUM OF ART. "Works of Georges Rouault: Paintings and Graphics," 25 September-1 November 1964, no. 22, ill.

DORIVAL, BERNARD. Rouault, l'oeuvre peint, vol. 2 (Monte Carlo: Editions Andre Sauret, 1988), no. 2068, ill. p. 182 (with slightly different measurement).

Signature
Signed CL In Oil: G Rouault
Inscriptions
No Visible DateNo Visible Inscriptions

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Alternate Title
Clown
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