$350
Georges Rouault (French, 1871-1958), "Sainte-Nitouche from Réincarnations du Père Ubu"-1932, etching and aquatint with roulette. Dated 1928 and G.R. within matrix lower left. Pencil signed lower right margin, numbered 57/225 lower right margin. Work depicting a young woman with curled hair wearing a necklace, with eyes closed. Sainte-Nitouche is plate number 19 from Ambroise Vollard's "Les Réincarnations du Père Ubu". For many years, the author and publisher Vollard was preoccupied with the character of Ubu from Alfred Jarry's political satire Ubu Roi, from 1896. Vollard's version of the story, published in 1932, contained a sequence of twenty-two illustrations by Georges Rouault, which he completed by 1928. These illustrations, which feature Rouault's dramatic and intense visual style, marked the artist's earliest use of photogravure techniques, and display a combination of etching and aquatint.
Auctioneer:
Ahlers & Ogletree Auction Gallery
Date:
2014-08-09
