About This Artwork

Georges Rouault
French, 1871–1958

The Dwarf, 1937

Oil on paper, lined to canvas
27 1/4 x 19 3/4 in. (69.2 x 50 cm)
Signed, .l.r.: "G Rouault"
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Max Epstein, 1946.96

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Bignou Gallery, Paintings and Gouaches by Georges Rouault, May 1940, n.p. (ill.), cat. 14.

Los Angeles, Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Rouault, August 15–September 15, 1940, cat. 3.

Boston, Institute of Modern Art, Georges Rouault, Retrospective Loan Exhibition, November 1940–March 1941, no. 39; traveled to Washington, D.C., Phillips Memorial Gallery, San Francisco Museum of Art.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Paintings and Prints, Georges Rouault, 1945, pp. 94 (ill.), 129, cat. 73. Grand Rapids, Mich., Grand Rapids Art Gallery, 1949.

Dallas Museum of Art, Exhibition, October 1949 Brussels, Belgium, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Georges Rouault: Retrospective, March–May 1952, pp. 36 (ill.), 54, no. 42; traveled to Amsterdam, Stedelijik Museum, May 9–June 30, 1952, and Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, July 9–October 26, 1952, p. 27, cat. 55, pl. X (ill.).

Cleveland, Museum of Art, Rouault: Retrospective Exhibition, January 27–March 14, 1953, p. 29 (not ill.); traveled to New York, Museum of Modern Art, March 31–June 1, 1953.

Milan, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Mostra di Georges Rouauls, April–June 1954, p. 18, cat. 54, pl. XXVII.

La Jolla, Museum of Art, Works of Rouault: Paintings and Graphics, September 25–November 1, 1964, n.p. (ill.), no. 14.

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Rouault, August 21–September 10, 1966; traveled to London, Tate Gallery, October 8–November 13, 1966, pp. 48, 49 (ill.), cat.67.

Haus der Kunst, Munich, Georges Rouault Retrospective, March 23–May 12, 1974, cat. 53; traveled to Manchester, City Art Galleries, June 4–July 28, 1974, cat. 37.

Publication History

La Renaissance (October–December 1937), v. 20, nos. 10/12, p. 2 (ill.), as Le nain. Elizabeth McCausland, “Three Frenchmen: Rouault, Soutine, Derain,” Parnassus (May 1940), p. 40.

Lionello Venturi, Georges Rouault (New York: E. Weyhe, 1940), p. 75, pl. 81 (ill.), cat. 102.

Le Point, Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Rouault, XXVI-XXVII (Lanzac, August-October 1943), p. 55 (ill.).

James Thrall Soby, Georges Rouault: Paintings and Prints (New York, 1947) pp. 15, 94 (ill.), 129.

Lionello Venturi, Georges Rouault (Paris; Albert Skira, 1948), p. 119 (ill.), pl. 95. Florent Fels, L’Art vivant de 1900 a nos jours (Geneva; Pierre Callier, 1950), p. 213 (ill.).

“Approches de L’œuvre de Georges Rouault,” Cahiers d’Art, (December 1952), 3, 27e anné, p. 128 (ill.).

Lionello Venturi, trans. by James Emmons, Rouault (Paris: Albert Skira, 1959), p. 91 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago : A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute, 1961), p. 405.

A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth Century European Paintings (University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 68, cat. 3F10.

Pierre Courthion and Isabelle Rouault, Georges Rouault (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1962), pp. 434 (ill.), 465, cat. 308, as Le Nain, The Dwarf.

Joshua Kind, Rouault (tudor Publishing Company, 1969), n.p., cat. 47 (ill.).

Bernard Dorival and Isabelle Rouault, Rouault: L’oeuvre peint (Monaco: Éditions André Sauret, 1988), v. 2, p. 170 (ill.), cat. 1980, as Le Nain.

Ownership History

Ambroise Vollard (died 1939), Paris, 1937 [La Renaissance 1937 and Courthion and Rouault 1962]. Bignou Gallery, New York, by May 1940 [New York 1940]. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Marx, Chicago, April 5, 1943 [receipt in curatorial file]. Mr. and Mrs. Max Epstein, Chicago, by 1946; given to the Art institute, 1946.