About this artwork
This is one of a number of paintings Rouault made of a female head depicted in profile. As in this painting, he often painted in a heavy impasto with thick black outlines. This style is indebted to his early training as a maker of stained-glass windows. Head relates closely to a project for a tapestry, hence the decorative border. In the 1930s Rouault frequently included a border in his paintings, forming a 'frame within a frame' for the picture.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Georges Rouault (1871 - 1958) French
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title:Head
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date created:About 1935 - 1940
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materials:Oil on paper laid on canvas
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measurements:61.90 x 48.40 cm; Framed: 88.50 x 75.10 x 8.30 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Presented by Sir Alexander Maitland in memory of his wife Rosalind 1960
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accession number:GMA 968
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gallery:
Georges Rouault
Georges Rouault
Rouault was born in Paris. After being apprenticed to a stained-glass maker from 1885 to 1890, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Gustave Moreau, where he was a contemporary of Matisse. Rouault was associated with the fauvist artists, but, unlike them, did not use pure, bright...
