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Georges Rouault

Portrait of a Clown

1929

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Georges Rouault

Portrait of a Clown

1929

Physical Qualities Pastel, opaque watercolor, and brush and black ink on paper, Sheet: 349 x 300 mm. (13 3/4 x 11 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Naomi Hendler Legum and Leslie Legum, Baltimore
Object Number 1993.166
Theodore Schempp, Paris and New York, 1934; St. Louis Art Museum
Art Institute of Chicago, Twenty-First International Exhibition of Watercolors, 1942.

Oliver Shell, BMA, "A Circus Family: Picasso to Léger," 22 February through 17 May 2009.

Inscribed: At lower left, in black ink: "G. Rouault / 1930"

Artist

Georges Rouault

1870–1957

French, 1871-1958
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