ROUAULT Georges (Paris 1871 † 1955) (AFTER). Holy Shroud; Parade. 1925. Test plates for the Miserere series. Colour phototypes. Proofs on vellum, printed by Clot, signed in the plate. Good margins. 63.3 x 49.6 cm (sheets). Ref : Capon et Rouault n°113 and 150. Condition A (some small marginal stains; remnants of miter on the back of the proofs, along the right edges). Set of 2 plates. "Primitively, the Miserere was to have one hundred engravings. Vollard had had one hundred original compositions by Rouault rotogravureed. The painter reprinted fifty-eight of them, which today form the Misere [...]. The magnitude of the work made him give up the completion of the forty-two others, although he began retouching most of them. ...] There are colour tests carried out by Auguste Clot in 1925 on numbers 113 (Holy Shroud) and 150 (Parade). "(Chapon and Rouault, p. 316 and 319).
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ROUAULT Georges (Paris 1871 † 1955) (AFTER). Holy Shroud; Parade. 1925. Test plates for the Miserere series. Colour phototypes. Proofs on vellum, printed by Clot, signed in the plate. Good margins. 63.3 x 49.6 cm (sheets). Ref : Capon et Rouault n°113 and 150. Condition A (some small marginal stains; remnants of miter on the back of the proofs, along the right edges). Set of 2 plates.
"Primitively, the Miserere was to have one hundred engravings. Vollard had had one hundred original compositions by Rouault rotogravureed. The painter reprinted fifty-eight of them, which today form the Misere [...]. The magnitude of the work made him give up the completion of the forty-two others, although he began retouching most of them. ...] There are colour tests carried out by Auguste Clot in 1925 on numbers 113 (Holy Shroud) and 150 (Parade). "(Chapon and Rouault, p. 316 and 319).
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