Marocain - Kunstsammlung NRW / Online-Sammlung

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Artist

Georges Rouault

1871
Paris, Frankreich

1958
Paris, Frankreich

Work data

Material/Technique

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

Image: 102.3 × 69.4 × 3.2 cm
Frame: 138.8 × 106.2 × 8 cm

Signature

Bez. u.r.: "G. Rouault"

Accession Number

0129

Catalogue Raisonné

Dorival/Rouault 2143

Acquisition year

1962

Provenance

The painting “Marocain” by Georges Rouault, which was created around 1913, became the property of the Parisian art dealer Ambroise Vollard when he purchased Rouault’s entire studio between 1913 and 1917. It is unclear how long it remained with Vollard, who died in a car accident in July 1939. At that time, his art collection is said to have comprised around 5,000 to 10,000 works. His estate was passed on to his siblings and the de Galéa family, who Vollard was in close contact with throughout his life. As G. David Thompson, who owned the work in the early 1960s, stated that he had received it from Robert de Galéa, it can be assumed that it was part of Vollard’s estate in 1939. The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen purchased the painting “Marocain” from Galerie Beyeler for its holdings in 1962.

Credit line

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Exhibitions

museum global. Mikrogeschichten einer ex-zentrischen Moderne/museum global. Microhistories of an Ex-centric Modernism, 9.11.2018-9.3.2019, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Grabbeplatz