Head of a Woman

Prints and Drawings

1904

Georges Rouault
French, 1871-1958

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Artist: Georges Rouault
Title: Head of a Woman
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1904
Medium: Gouache, with touches of pen and brown ink, over blue crayon on tan wove paper, laid down on tan wood-pulp laminate board
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink; "G Rouault/1904"
Dimensions: 25 × 19.2 cm (9 7/8 × 7 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Hedwig B. Schniewind
Reference Number: 1963.475
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Bernard Dorival and Isabelle Rouault, Rouault: l’œuvre peint I (Monte-Carlo, 1988), p. 85, no. 279 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, “21st International Exhibition of Water Colors,” May 14–August 23, 1942, n.p., cat. 11.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Paintings and Prints, Georges Rouault,” 1945, pp. 35 and 114, cat. 3 (ill.).
Chicago, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, “Paintings and Prints by Georges Rouault,” October 5–31, 1945, n.p., cat. 1.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Les fauves,” October 8, 1952–January 4, 1953, p. 47, cat. 122; traveled to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, January 21–February 22, 1953, the San Francisco Museum of Art, March 13–April 12, 1953, and the Art Gallery of Toronto, May 1–May 31, 1953.

Mr. and Mrs. Carl O. Schniewind (1900–1957), Chicago, by 1945 [New York 1945]; bequeathed by Mrs. Hedwig B. Schniewind to the Art Institute, 1963.

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