Jose Garcia Ortega

Seated Figure

c.1970

This artwork titled "Clown et Enfant (Clown and Child)" from the suite "Cirque (Circus) by Andre Suarez" created in 1930, is an original color aquatint, etching and drypoint by renown French artist Georges Rouault, 1871-1958. It is signed in the plate as issue. According to Isabelle Rouault (Daughter of the artist) the total edition was 500. Published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris and printed by Maurice Potin, Paris. Referenced and pictured in the artist's catalogue raisonnes by Rauch #153, Kornfeld, Klipstein Catalog 120, #134 to #144, Soby pages 110 and 120, and Ambroise Vollard Editeur by Una E. Johnson #202 and page #109. . The plate mark (image) is 12.15 x 8.25 inches, framed size is 24.75 x 21 inches. Custom framed in a wooden black and gold frame, with fabric matting, fabric spacer, and gold color bevel. Artwork and frame are in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright. Example of this artwork is held in many museums including The Museum of Modern Art, New York About the artist: French painter, draughtsman, printmaker and designer, Georges Rouault created a personal style of Expressionism that gives him a highly distinctive place in Modern Art. Rouault was born in 1871, in the cellar of a house in Belleville, a working class quarter of Paris near the Père Lachaise cemetery, while the city was being bombarded by government troops quelling the Paris Commune. His father was a finisher and varnisher of pianos at a local factory. Rouault's grandfather was an amateur art...

This artwork "Untitled (Man)" 1977, is an original colors etching with with aquatint on Wove paper by noted American artist Charles Eckart, b.1935. It is hand signed in pencil by the...