Georges Rouault (1871-1958)
Independent artist of the contemporary avant-garde movements, if not a filiation with fauvism, Georges Rouault is the author of a profoundly humanistic work, placing in its center the man in the grip of fate. He tirelessly painted clowns, judges, defendants, girls or painful Christs, taking care to translate the sadness of the soul by means of his luminous colors contained in broad black lines.
Works of art by the artist Henri Matisse
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Nomades au cheval étique
Georges Rouault
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La Baie des trépassés
Georges Rouault
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Le Père Ubu chantre
Georges Rouault
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Étude Miserere
Georges Rouault
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L'Administrateur colonial
Georges Rouault
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Cheval blanc ou Écuyère
Georges Rouault
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Clown qui ne se grime pas ?
Georges Rouault
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Les Fleurs du Mal
Georges Rouault
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Grotesques
Georges Rouault
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Christ en Croix
Georges Rouault
Studio Lipnitzki / Roger-Viollet
Biography of artist Henri Matisse
Georges Rouault was born on May 27, 1871, at the end of the bloody week of the Paris Commune. He learns the trade of glass painter in 1885 with Tamoni. From the summer onwards, he also attended evening classes at the École des Arts Décoratifs. The following year, he worked for the stained-glass restorer Hirsch. He passed the entrance exam for the École des Beaux-Arts in 1890, and joined the studio of painter Elie Delaunay in early December. When Delaunay died in early September 1891, his friend Gustave Moreau took over - the other studio heads at the time were Léon Bonnat and Jean-Léon Gérôme. A strong relationship developed between Gustave Moreau and the young Rouault, who in July 1894 was awarded the Prix Chenavard for L'Enfant Jésus parmi les docteurs, 1894 (Musée Unterlinden, Colmar).
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