Live Auction 3738Impressionist and Modern Day Sale Including Property from the John C. Whitehead Collection
Georges Rouault (1871-1958)
Lot 1348 Property from a Private Japanese Collection

Georges Rouault (1871-1958)

Christ aux outrages

Closed15 May 2015

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Georges Rouault (1871-1958)
Christ aux outrages
signed 'G Rouault' (lower left)
oil on canvas
15 7/8 x 11 ¼ in. (40 x 28.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1925

Galerie Odermatt-Cazeau, Paris.
John Wesley Warrington, Indian Hills, Ohio.

Specialist note

The present work is part of a series Rouault created for Ambroise Vollard to illustrate Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal. The artist made a suite of prints from his oil paintings beginning in 1927. The suite was published in 1966 in Rouault, Quatorze planches gravées pour les Fleurs du mal and Christ aux Outrages relates to plate two of this publication.