Georges Rouault, Georges Aubert, and others
Cirque de l’étoile filante
1930
Scroll
- Artist: Georges Rouault
- Artist: Georges Aubert
- Publisher: Ambroise Vollard
- Printer: Roger Lacourière
- Printer: Aux Deux Ours
Cirque de l’étoile filante
1930
Physical Qualities
Bound volume with 82 wood engravings, 17 color aquatints, and letterpress text, Book: 460 x 348 x 45 mm. (18 1/8 x 13 11/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 447 x 332 mm. (17 5/8 x 13 1/16 in.)
Image: 313 × 205 mm. (12 5/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Ryda Hecht Levi Collection of Illustrated Books, Gift of Ryda H. and Robert H. Levi, Baltimore
Object Number
1991.117
Book with 168 pages, 99 illustrations by the artist: aquatints printed by Roger Lacourière; text and wood engravings printed by Aux Deux Ours; wood engravings by Georges Aubert after Rouault gouaches.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1991; Ryda H. Levi, Luthervilee, MD, 1963; H.P. Kraus Old and Rare Books, NY
Victor Carlson, Baltimore Museum of Art, "French Illustrated Books of the 19th and 20th Century," 15 October - 14 January 1967 (?). no. 64.
Oliver Shell, BMA, "A Circus Family: Picasso to Léger," 22 February through 17 May 2009.
Oliver Shell, BMA, "A Circus Family: Picasso to Léger," 22 February through 17 May 2009.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Artist and the Book, 1860-1960, cat. 271, pp. 181 - 183. Una Johnson, Ambroise Vollard, Editeur, Museum of Modern Art, 1977, cat. 200, pp. 164-165. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Artist and the Book, 1860-1960, cat. 271, pp. 181 - 183. Una Johnson, Ambroise Vollard, Editeur, Museum of Modern Art, 1977, cat. 200, pp. 164-165.
"Circus Programs," BMA Today, Spring 2009, p. 7, ill.
Inscribed: None
Markings: None
