Nude by Georges Rouault
Art Institute of Chicago

Nude

Georges Rouault · 1906

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Dr. Jacques Soubies; sold, Hotel Drouot, Paris, June 14, 1928, lot 81. Sold by the Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1937.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, "Georges Rouault," November 9–December 4, 1937 (ill.), as Torse de femme, n.d. (not listed in exhibition checklist).
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "The 17th International Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels, Drawings, and Monotypes," April 28–May 30, 1938, n.p., cat. 28.
  • Boston, The Institute of Modern Art, "Georges Rouault: Retrospective Loan Exhibition," November–December 1940, p. 29, cat. 63 (ill.); traveled to Washington, D.C., The Phillips Memorial Gallery, January 1941 and The San Francisco Museum of Art, February–March 1941.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "21st International Exhibition of Water Colors," May 14–August 23, 1942, n.p., cat. 19.
  • New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Paintings and Prints, Georges Rouault," 1945, pp. 39 and 114, cat. 9 (ill.).
  • Chicago, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, "Paintings and Prints by Georges Rouault," October 5–31, 1945, n.p., cat. 2.
  • Hartford, Conn., Wadsworth Atheneum, "The Nude in Art," January 1–February 3, 1946, p. 14, cat. 52.
  • Grand Rapids, Mich., Grand Rapids Art Gallery, "Georges Rouault," April 11–May 2, 1947.
  • New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Les fauves," October 8, 1952–January 4, 1953, p. 47, cat. 123a; traveled to Minneapolis Institute of Arts, January 21–February 22, 1953, San Francisco Museum of Art, March 13–April 12, 1953, and Art Gallery of Toronto, May 1–May 31, 1953.
  • Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, "Les Fauves," January 29–March 16, 1959, n.p., cat. 30 (ill.).
  • Strasbourg, France, Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, "Georges Rouault: Forme, couleur, harmonie," November 10, 2006–March 18, 2007, p. 267.

Literature

Published references

  • Lionello Venturi, Georges Rouault (New York: E. Weyhe, 1940), pp. 43 and 73, pl. 21, fig. 27.
  • Edward Alden Jewell, Georges Rouault (New York: Hyperion Press, 1945), n.p. (ill.).
  • Lionello Venturi, Georges Rouault (Paris: Albert Skira, 1948), p. 113, pl. 24, fig. 30.
  • Bernard Dorival and Isabelle Rouault, Rouault: l'œuvre peint I (Monte-Carlo: André Sauret, 1988), p. 100, no. 349 (ill.).
  • Peter Hastings Falk (ed.), The Annual Exhibition Record of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1888-1950 (Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1990), p. 771.

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