George Rouault GEORGES ROUAULT PAINTING & ENGRAVING COMBINED FLOATING DRAGON AND NUDE COUPLEGeorge Roualt painting & engraving combined Floating Dragon and nude coupleBeautiful combined works by George Roualt together in their original gilded wood frame.The top work is a nude couple painted on paper measuring 55cm (21.5”) x 30 cm (12”)The lower work is an original signed and numbered print called Floating Dragon. measures 30 cm (12”) x 21 cm (8”1/4)Excellent Condition.Biography,Georges Rouault, Georges-Henri Rouault (born May 27, 1871, Paris, France-died February 13, 1958, Paris), French painter, printmaker, ceramicist, and maker of stained glass who, drawing inspiration from French medieval masters, united religious and secular traditions divorced since the Renaissance.Without completely abandoning watercolor, after 1914 Rouault turned more and more towards the oil medium. His paint layers became thick, rich, and sensuous, his forms simplified and monumental, and his colors and heavy black lines reminiscent of stained-glass windows. His subject matter became more specifically religious, with a greater emphasis on the possibility of redemption than he had put into his pre-1914 work. In the 1930s I have produced a particularly splendid series of paintings on the Passion of Christ; Typical examples are Christ Mocked by Soldiers, The Holy Face, and Christ and the High Priest. During these years I have got into the habit of reworking his earlier pictures of him; The Old King, for instance, is dated 1916-36.Among the major artists of the 20th-century school of Paris, Rouault was an isolated figure in at least two respects: he practiced Expressionism, a style that has never found much favor in France, and he was chiefly a religious painter-one of the most convincing in recent centuries. Both statements, however, need qualification. Rouault was not as fiercely Expressionistic as some of his Scandinavian and German contemporaries; in some ways his work is a late flowering of 19th-century Realism and Romanticism. And he was not an official church artist; his concern with no and redemption was deeply personal.

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