Georges Rouault, Les Fleurs du Mal, Paris, 2008, Les Editions du Cerf.
14 aquatints in black.
12 color etchings.
Rouault , XIV plates for Les Fleurs du Mal, Paris, 1966, L'Etoile Filante. Illustr.: 4 reproductions "outside the text".
Georges-Henri Rouault (1871-1958) was a French painter and engraver. Along with painters Henri Matisse and Albert Marquet, Rouault founded the Salon d'Automne in 1903 and met Léon Bloy, whose work profoundly and lastingly affected him. A devout Catholic, he recognized in this suffering humanity the face of Christ, which he explored in numerous canvases depicting the Passion. From 1910 onward, collectors and dealers recognized the great power of his work, notably Maurice Girardin and Ambroise Vollard, who, in 1917, purchased all 770 canvases from his studio. After Vollard's death in 1946, Rouault was embroiled in a legal dispute with the heirs, but the court ultimately recognized his ownership of the works. In 1948, Georges Rouault burned 315 of his paintings in the presence of a bailiff and stopped painting in 1957. Upon his death in 1958, the French government decided to give him a national funeral at the Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris.
