Rouault Georges 1871–1958

Automne, 1933

lithography, paper, 43 × 57 cm, mounted, frame, glass, signed in ink bottom right Georges Rouault, bottom left 3 1 crugé Automne-1933
Published by Rouault, Graphic Work, Editions André Sauret, Monaco, 1978, full-page page 118, fig.234 Provenance: private collection of France, Paris Professionally restored. French painter who made a significant impact on the Czech environment. The initiator of the friendship was a Moravian publisher Josef Florian with his famous publishing activity of Good Works. In his publishing house he promoted the painter's work even before the First World War. Rouault sent over 100 letters to Florian over the course of fifteen years, verses and many of his prints and originals. In 1917, Rouault was discovered by a prominent gallerist Ambroise Vollard, bought his entire oeuvre (770 paintings) and employed him as an illustrator for his bibliophile editions.