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Georges Rouault
Circus Girl (Fille de Cirque)1906

Not on view
Watercolor and ink portrait of a woman in profile wearing a blue dress and large cobalt hat, rendered in loose, gestural brushwork
Artist or Maker
Georges Rouault
France, 1871-1958
Title
Circus Girl (Fille de Cirque)
Date Made
1906
Medium
Gouache, watercolor, ink, and pastel on cardboard
Dimensions
28 13/16 × 21 3/16 in. (73.2 × 53.8 cm) LE Inventory: 39 1/8 × 31 × 4 1/4 in. (99.38 × 78.74 × 10.8 cm)
Credit Line
Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number
M.2005.70.122
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Provenance
The artist (1871-1958). Collection Grimard, Paris (c. 1921); [Galerie Georges Bernheim, Paris c.1926)]; Collection James Johnson Sweeney, New York; [Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne]; sold in 2001 to Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles; given in 2005 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Dorival, Bernard, and Isabelle Rouault. Rouault: l'Œuvre peint. Monte Carlo: Éditions A. Sauret, 1988.
  • Barron, Stephanie. Envisioning Modernism: The Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2012.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris