The Poor Church

Prints and Drawings

1929

Georges Rouault
French, 1871-1958

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Georges Rouault
Title: The Poor Church
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1929
Medium: Gouache and black watercolor, with pastel on ivory wove watercolor paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower center, in pen and black ink: "G Rouault 1929"
Dimensions: 52 × 36.7 cm (20 1/2 × 14 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
Reference Number: 1947.107
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

C. J. Bulliet, “Worcester’s Generosity,” The Art Digest XXI:13 (April 1, 1947), p. 14.
Pierre Courthion and Isabelle Rouault, Georges Rouault (New York, 1962), p. 422, no. 178 (ill.), as La Pauvre Eglise, 1929; Church in a Depressed Area.
Bernard Dorival and Isabelle Rouault, Rouault: l’œuvre peint 2 (Monte-Carlo, 1988), p. 21, no. 1189 (ill.), as “Je vois encore la vielle église au bout du chemin…,” 1929.
Peter Hastings Falk (ed.), The Annual Exhibition Record of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1888-1950 (Madison, Conn., 1990), p. 771, as Poor Man’s Church.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “21st International Exhibition of Water Colors,” May 14–August 23, 1942, n.p., cat. 16, as Poor Man’s Church, n.d.
Illinois Federation of Arts (organizer), October 5, 1952–April 26, 1953; exhibited in Galesburg, Ill., Galesburg Civic Art League.
The Art Institute of Chicago, June 7, 1991–February 28, 1992.

Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester, Chicago, by 1942 [Chicago 1942]; given to the AIC, 1947.

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