georges rouault

Just got in some great Georges Rouault etchings. They were made for The Passion by Andres Suares in 1936. I love the strength of his work. This suite is described as having '. . . an intensity of feeling usually equalled only in medieval art.'

Rouault was born in 1871 and died in 1958. When he was 14 he became an apprentice in a stained-glass workshop and it has been suggested that this influenced his later painting style - the use of heavy black lines and strong colours. At 20 he enrolled at the Paris Beaux-Art and became a pupil of Gustave Moreau. His paintings made in Paris during the 1910s ranged from Christ’s death and passion to whores, circus acrobats and clowns. All his life he showed great interest in engraving and lithography and produced some important series of work.