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Artist: Georges Rouault Author: Pierre Courthion Publisher: Thames & Hudson Date: 1962 Condition: Hardback, complete with the original unclipped printed dust wrapper over the artist-designed printed cloth boards. The wrapper a little shelf-marked but generally good. Internally this copy is very clean and tidy, some light handling marks and light tanning to the page edges, some light foxing to the inside front and back covers. Illustrated throughout in black and white and tipped-in colour plates.
This major monograph and catalogue raisonne is one of the key volumes on Rouault, an artist whose standing in the post-war art world was extremely high. This large book, the product of decades of research by Pierre Courthion, includes an extensive life of the artist, an illustrated catalogue raisonne and chronology, bibliography and exhibition listing.
