Nude | The Art Institute of Chicago

Skip to Content

© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Prints and Drawings

1906

Georges Rouault
French, 1871-1958

Currently Off View: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Georges Rouault
Title: Nude
Origin: France
Date: 1906
Medium: Watercolor and gouache, with pastel and touches of colored pencil on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Not signed
Dimensions: 400 × 337 mm
Credit Line: Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1937.1104
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Lionello Venturi, Georges Rouault (New York: E. Weyhe, 1940), pp. 43 and 73, pl. 21, fig. 27.
Edward Alden Jewell, Georges Rouault (New York: Hyperion Press, 1945), n.p. (ill.).
Lionello Venturi, Georges Rouault (Paris: Albert Skira, 1948), p. 113, pl. 24, fig. 30.
Bernard Dorival and Isabelle Rouault, Rouault: l’œuvre peint I (Monte-Carlo: André Sauret, 1988), p. 100, no. 349 (ill.).
Peter Hastings Falk (ed.), The Annual Exhibition Record of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1888-1950 (Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1990), p. 771.

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, “Georges Rouault,” November 9–December 4, 1937 (ill.), as Torse de femme, n.d. (not listed in exhibition checklist).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The 17th International Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels, Drawings, and Monotypes,” April 28–May 30, 1938, n.p., cat. 28.
Boston, The Institute of Modern Art, “Georges Rouault: Retrospective Loan Exhibition,” November–December 1940, p. 29, cat. 63 (ill.); traveled to Washington, D.C., The Phillips Memorial Gallery, January 1941 and The San Francisco Museum of Art, February–March 1941.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “21st International Exhibition of Water Colors,” May 14–August 23, 1942, n.p., cat. 19.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Paintings and Prints, Georges Rouault,” 1945, pp. 39 and 114, cat. 9 (ill.).
Chicago, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, “Paintings and Prints by Georges Rouault,” October 5–31, 1945, n.p., cat. 2.
Hartford, Conn., Wadsworth Atheneum, “The Nude in Art,” January 1–February 3, 1946, p. 14, cat. 52.
Grand Rapids, Mich., Grand Rapids Art Gallery, “Georges Rouault,” April 11–May 2, 1947.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Les fauves,” October 8, 1952–January 4, 1953, p. 47, cat. 123a; traveled to Minneapolis Institute of Arts, January 21–February 22, 1953, San Francisco Museum of Art, March 13–April 12, 1953, and Art Gallery of Toronto, May 1–May 31, 1953.
Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, “Les Fauves,” January 29–March 16, 1959, n.p., cat. 30 (ill.).
Strasbourg, France, Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, “Georges Rouault: Forme, couleur, harmonie,” November 10, 2006–March 18, 2007, p. 267.

Dr. Jacques Soubies; sold, Hotel Drouot, Paris, June 14, 1928, lot 81. Sold by the Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1937.

Object information is a work in progress and may be updated as new research findings emerge. To help improve this record, please email . Information about image downloads and licensing is available here.

Explore Further

Learn more

Suggested Terms