About the Artwork
Head of a Girl
1929
Georges Rouault
1871-1958
French
Unknown
Watercolor and gouache on paper
Sheet: 20 1/2 × 14 3/4 inches (52.1 × 37.5 cm) Framed: 30 × 23 3/4 × 2 inches (76.2 × 60.3 × 5.1 cm)
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Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
70.296
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Markings
Signed and dated, lower right: G.Rouault-1929
Inscribed, in black paint verso, upper left: No 2 Inscribed, upper center, in black ink: No. 2 Inscribed, upper right, in black paint: ne trompe pas "Trompe" [printed above crossed out word, probably "ment"] Inscribed, in black crayon, along left edge, vertically: [illegible numbers] x 0.52 correspond a chasses 139 x 0,98
Provenance
Chester Johnson Galleries (Chicago, Illinois, USA). Mrs. Lyons. Theodore Schempp. January 1935, D. Kekkian (sold Rains Gallery, no. 70). 1970-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) [all information except that regarding Kekkian is speculation deduced from letter from Schempp to Tannahill in GA file]
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Georges Rouault, Head of a Girl, 1929, watercolor and gouache on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill, 70.296.
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