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Currently not on display

Georges Rouault

Paris, 1871 - Paris, 1958

Lulu (Head of a Clown)

Date 1952
Materials and Techniques oil on unconfirmed support (reinforced by or transferred to a plywood-panel) with painted frame
Size(cm) 39.5 (60) x 25 (46)
Inscriptions Signed upper left and center left: GR / G Rouault
Credit Line Purchased
Standard ref. Dorival 2427
Category Paintings
Collection Number P.1975-0007

Provenance

Ryuzaburo, Umehara, Tokyo; Keisaku Shimada, Tokyo; Purchased by the NMWA, 1976.

Bibliography

1977
Bulletin Annuel du Musée National d’Art Occidental, No. 10 (1975), 1977, Nouvelles acquisitions, par Chisaburoh F. Yamada, p. 5. Nouvelles acquisitions (catalogue). pp. 12-13. repr.
1978
Masterpieces of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1978 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 86, repr.
1979
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 247, repr.
1988
Dorival, Bernard. Rouault: l'œuvre peint. Monte-Carlo, André Sauret, 1988, (vol. 2), p. 252, no. 2427, repr.

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