Artworks · Georges Rouault

Douce Amère (Bittersweet) (plate facing page 100) from Cirque de l'étoile filante (The Shooting Star Circus)

1934 · Aquatint, etching, and drypoint from an illustrated book with seventy-four wood engravings and seventeen aquatint and etchings (eleven with drypoint)

plate: 12 3/16 × 8 1/16" (31 × 20.4 cm); page (irreg.): 17 5/16 × 13 3/16" (44 × 33.5 cm)

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Cirque de l'étoile filante (The Shooting Star Circus)

1934 · Illustrated book with seventy-four wood engravings and seventeen aquatint and etchings (eleven with drypoint)

page (irreg.): 17 5/16 × 13 3/16" (44 × 33.5 cm); overall (closed): 18 1/8 × 14 1/2 × 1 3/4" (46.1 × 36.8 × 4.4 cm)

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Parade (frontispiece) from Cirque de l'étoile filante (The Shooting Star Circus)

1934 · Aquatint and etching from an illustrated book with seventy-four wood engravings and seventeen aquatint and etchings (eleven with drypoint)

plate: 12 1/16 × 7 13/16" (30.6 × 19.8 cm); page (irreg.): 17 5/16 × 13 3/16" (44 × 33.5 cm)

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Master Arthur (plate facing page 92) from Cirque de l'étoile filante (The Shooting Star Circus)

1934 · Aquatint, etching, and drypoint from an illustrated book with seventy-four wood engravings and seventeen aquatint and etchings (eleven with drypoint)

plate: 12 1/8 × 8 1/4" (30.8 × 20.9 cm); page (irreg.): 17 5/16 × 13 3/16" (44 × 33.5 cm)

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Tristes Os (Weary Bones) (plate facing page 64) from Cirque de l'étoile filante (The Shooting Star Circus)

1934 · Aquatint and etching from an illustrated book with seventy-four wood engravings and seventeen aquatint and etchings (eleven with drypoint)

plate: 12 5/16 × 8 1/16" (31.3 × 20.5 cm); page (irreg.): 17 5/16 × 13 3/16" (44 × 33.5 cm)

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Le Petit Nain (The Little Dwarf) (plate facing page 20) from Cirque de l'étoile filante (The Shooting Star Circus)

1934 · Aquatint, etching, and drypoint from an illustrated book with seventy-four wood engravings and seventeen aquatint and etchings (eleven with drypoint)

plate: 12 3/16 × 8 3/8" (31 × 21.2 cm); page (irreg.): 17 5/16 × 13 3/16" (44 × 33.5 cm)

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The Ballerinas (plate facing page 136) from Cirque de l'étoile filante (The Shooting Star Circus)

1934 · Aquatint and etching from an illustrated book with seventy-four wood engravings and seventeen aquatint and etchings (eleven with drypoint)

plate: 12 5/16 × 8 1/16" (31.3 × 20.5 cm); page (irreg.): 17 5/16 × 13 3/16" (44 × 33.5 cm)

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Jongleur (The Juggler) (plate facing page 36) from Cirque de l'étoile filante (The Shooting Star Circus)

1934 · Aquatint, etching, and drypoint from an illustrated book with seventy-four wood engravings and seventeen aquatint and etchings (eleven with drypoint)

plate: 12 1/16 × 8 3/8" (30.6 × 21.2 cm); page (irreg.): 17 5/16 × 13 3/16" (44 × 33.5 cm)

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Autumn

1933 · Color aquatint and sugar lift etching on cream laid paper

Image/plate: 50.6 × 65.4 cm (19 15/16 × 25 3/4 in.); Sheet: 57.5 × 78 cm (22 11/16 × 30 3/4 in.)

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Autumn

1933 · Lithograph on paper

Image: 43.5 × 57.5 cm (17 3/16 × 22 11/16 in.); Sheet: 52.3 × 65.3 cm (20 5/8 × 25 3/4 in.)

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Verlaine

1933 · Lithograph on paper

Image: 42.5 × 32 cm (16 3/4 × 12 5/8 in.); Sheet: 56.5 × 43.5 cm (22 1/4 × 17 3/16 in.)

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The Two Matrons, from Les Réincarnations du Père Ubu

1932 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 27.2 × 18.8 cm (10 3/4 × 7 7/16 in.); Sheet: 42.9 × 33 cm (16 15/16 × 13 in.)

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Seated Nude, from Les Réincarnations du Père Ubu

1932 · Etching, aquatint and heliogravure with roulette, on paper

Image/plate: 26.8 × 16.9 cm (10 9/16 × 6 11/16 in.); Sheet: 43.3 × 32.5 cm (17 1/16 × 12 13/16 in.)

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Woman in a Large Hat, from Les Réincarnations du Père Ubu

1932 · Etching and aquatint, with scraping, burnishing, roulette and drypoint, on ivory laid paper

Image/plate: 29.8 × 20.1 cm (11 3/4 × 7 15/16 in.); Sheet: 43.3 × 33.6 cm (17 1/16 × 13 1/4 in.)

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The Theatre Director, from Les Réincarnations du Père Ubu

1932 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 30.4 × 19.6 cm (12 × 7 3/4 in.); Sheet: 43.2 × 33.4 cm (17 1/16 × 13 3/16 in.)

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Cristal de Roche, from Les Réincarnations du Père Ubu

1932 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 31.5 × 20.1 cm (12 7/16 × 7 15/16 in.); Sheet: 43.3 × 32.7 cm (17 1/16 × 12 7/8 in.)

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Wedding, from Les Réincarnations du Père Ubu

1932 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 31 × 22.3 cm (12 1/4 × 8 13/16 in.); Sheet: 43.2 × 32.5 cm (17 1/16 × 12 13/16 in.)

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Miss Irma, from Les Réincarnations du Père Ubu

1932 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 30.1 × 18 cm (11 7/8 × 7 1/8 in.); Sheet: 43.2 × 32.7 cm (17 1/16 × 12 7/8 in.)

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Saint Touch-Me-Not, from Les Réincarnations du Père Ubu

1932 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 25.4 × 16.4 cm (10 × 6 1/2 in.); Sheet: 43.3 × 33.3 cm (17 1/16 × 13 1/8 in.)

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Incantation, from Les Réincarnations du Père Ubu

1932 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 29.7 × 19.7 cm (11 3/4 × 7 13/16 in.); Sheet: 43 × 33 cm (16 15/16 × 13 in.)

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Profile, from Les Réincarnations du Père Ubu

1932 · Etching, aquatint, lift-ground, burnishing, scraping on ivory laid paper

Plate: 31.5 × 20 cm (12 7/16 × 7 7/8 in.); Sheet: 43 × 32.5 cm (16 15/16 × 12 13/16 in.)

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Nude, from Les Réincarnations du Père Ubu

1932 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 26.8 × 16.6 cm (10 9/16 × 6 9/16 in.); Sheet: 43.3 × 33.4 cm (17 1/16 × 13 3/16 in.)

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Tropical Landscape, from Les Réincarnations du Père Ubu

1932 · Etching, roulette, drypoint, burnishing on ivory laid paper

Plate: 30 × 9 cm (11 13/16 × 3 9/16 in.); Sheet: 43.5 × 32.5 cm (17 3/16 × 12 13/16 in.)

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African Dance, from Les Réincarnations du Père Ubu

1932 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 30.1 × 15.2 cm (11 7/8 × 6 in.); Sheet: 43.3 × 32.5 cm (17 1/16 × 12 13/16 in.)

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The Good Voter, from Les Réincarnations du Père Ubu

1932 · Heliograph, burnishing, roulette, drypoint on ivory laid paper

Plate: 27 × 17.5 cm (10 11/16 × 6 15/16 in.); Sheet: 43 × 33 cm (16 15/16 × 13 in.)

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The Candidate Boudoubadabou, from Réincarnations du Père Ubu

1932 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 30.1 × 19.4 cm (11 7/8 × 7 11/16 in.); Plate: 43.2 × 32.9 cm (17 1/16 × 13 in.)

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The Colonial Administrator, from Les Réincarnations du Père Ubu

1932 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 26.8 × 16.8 cm (10 9/16 × 6 5/8 in.); Sheet: 43.2 × 32.7 cm (17 1/16 × 12 7/8 in.)

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The Liberated Black, from Les Réincarnations du Père Ubu

1932 · Etching, aquatint, roulete, lift-ground, burnishing on ivory laid paper

Plate: 21.5 × 30 cm (8 1/2 × 11 13/16 in.); Sheet: 32.5 × 43 cm (12 13/16 × 16 15/16 in.)

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The Obnoxious Colonist, from Les Réincarnations du Père Ubu

1932 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 30.4 × 19.3 cm (12 × 7 5/8 in.); Sheet: 43.3 × 33 cm (17 1/16 × 13 in.)

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The Infamous Politician, from Les Réincarnations du Père Ubu

1932 · Etching, aquatint, drypoint, lift ground, scraping, burnishing on ivory laid paper

Plate: 30 × 19.5 cm (11 13/16 × 7 11/16 in.); Sheet: 43.5 × 32.5 cm (17 3/16 × 12 13/16 in.)

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Frontispiece, from Les Réincarnations du Père Ubu

1932 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 30 × 19.8 cm (11 13/16 × 7 13/16 in.); Sheet: 42.6 × 32.3 cm (16 13/16 × 12 3/4 in.)

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Les Réincarnations du Père Ubu

1932 · Bound text with wood engravings

Sheet: 44.5 × 32.5 cm (17 9/16 × 12 13/16 in.); Book: 45.5 × 33.5 × 3.8 cm (17 15/16 × 13 1/4 × 1 1/2 in.); Box: 46.8 × 34.5 × 4.8 cm (18 7/16 × 13 5/8 × 1 15/16 in.)

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Christ Mocked by Soldiers

1932 · Oil on canvas

36 1/4 x 28 1/2" (92.1 x 72.4 cm)

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Bust of a Girl, in Profile to the Left

1932 · Heliogravure

composition: 11 13/16 x 7 13/16" (30 x 19.9 cm); sheet: 13 1/4 x 9 13/16" (33.7 x 24.9 cm)

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Bust of a Girl, in Profile to the Left

1932 · Etching

plate: 10 9/16 x 6 11/16" (26.8 x 17 cm); sheet: 12 15/16 x 9 3/4" (32.8 x 24.7 cm)

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Prospectus forRéincarnations du Père Ubu

1932 · Prospectus with one etching and three wood engravings

page (irreg.): 17 5/16 x 12 13/16" (44 x 32.5 cm); prints: various dimensions.

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Clown Playing The Large Drum, drawing for plate three from Cirque

1930 · Brush and black ink and watercolor, over graphite, with border in pen and black ink, on tan wove tracing paper

32.8 × 22.8 cm (12 15/16 × 9 in.)

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The Ballerina, drawing for plate eight from Cirque

1930 · Brush and black ink and watercolor, over traces of graphite, with border in pen and black ink, on tan wove tracing paper

32.1 × 21.9 cm (12 11/16 × 8 5/8 in.)

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Black Pierrot, plate two from Cirque de l'Étoile Filante

1930 · Aquatint in green, blue, and dark gray on tan wove paper

Image: 30.3 × 20.5 cm (11 15/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Plate: 30.6 × 21.4 cm (12 1/16 × 8 7/16 in.); Sheet: 44.3 × 32.4 cm (17 1/2 × 12 13/16 in.)

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Black Pierrot, plate two from Cirque de l'Étoile Filante

1930 · Aquatint in green, orange, red, and gray on tan wove paper

Image: 29.5 × 19.4 cm (11 5/8 × 7 11/16 in.); Plate: 30.8 × 21.2 cm (12 3/16 × 8 3/8 in.); Sheet: 44.4 × 32.6 cm (17 1/2 × 12 7/8 in.)

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Black Pierrot, plate two from Cirque de l'Étoile Filante

1930 · Aquatint in green, blue, orange, red and gray on tan wove paper

Image: 30.2 × 20.5 cm (11 15/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Plate: 30.9 × 21.2 cm (12 3/16 × 8 3/8 in.); Sheet: 44.4 × 32.5 cm (17 1/2 × 12 13/16 in.)

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Clown and Child from Cirque

1930 · Lift ground aquatint, aquatint, and etching over photogravure

plate: 12 5/16 x 8 3/8" (31.2 x 21.2 cm); sheet (irreg.): 17 1/2 x 13 1/4" (44.5 x 33.6 cm)

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Ballerina from Cirque

1930 · Lift ground aquatint and aquatint over photogravure

plate: 12 x 7 15/16" (30.5 x 20.2 cm); sheet (irreg.): 17 7/16 x 13 3/16" (44.3 x 33.5 cm)

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The Yellow Clown from Cirque

1930 · Lift ground aquatint, aquatint, and etching over photogravure

plate: 13 13/16 x 9 15/16" (35.1 x 25.2 cm); sheet (irreg.): 17 7/16 x 13 3/8" (44.3 x 33.9 cm)

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The Juggler from Cirque

1930 · Lift ground aquatint, aquatint, and etching over photogravure

plate: 12 5/16 x 8 7/16" (31.2 x 21.5 cm); sheet (irreg.): 17 1/2 x 13 1/4" (44.5 x 33.6 cm)

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The Side Show from Cirque

1930 · Lift ground aquatint and aquatint over photogravure

plate: 11 15/16 x 10 9/16" (30.3 x 26.8 cm); sheet (irreg.): 17 3/8 x 13 1/4" (44.2 x 33.7 cm)

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The Old Clown from Cirque

1930 · Lift ground aquatint, aquatint, and etching over photogravure

plate: 12 7/8 x 9" (32.7 x 22.8 cm); sheet (irreg.): 17 1/4 x 13 3/16" (43.8 x 33.5 cm)

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The Poor Church

1929 · Gouache and black watercolor, with pastel on ivory wove watercolor paper

52 × 36.7 cm (20 1/2 × 14 1/2 in.)

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