George Rouault

1945. 132pp. Colour frontispiece. Illustrated in colour and B&W. "​Georges Rouault: a solitary figure in an era of group manif+estoes and shared directions; a devout Catholic and devotional painter in a period when artists more often have run the gamut of anti-religious feeling, from indifference to irreverence; a painter of sin and redemption in the face of prevailing estheticism and counter-estheticism; an artist with a limited vision of unlimited ferocity in contrast to many other leading painters who have scanned and pivoted but seldom stared fixedly for long; a man who has opposed Henri-Matisse's peaceful wish that art evoke "the same sensation as a good armchair," by making much of his own painting resemble a seat of moral judgment. Thus-Rouault since the early years of his career, which began in the 1890s." The book is in very goodcondition. Light foxing to the end papers. No inscriptions.