Smooth Talker, or The Academician (Bonimenteur ou L'Académicien)

Modern Art

c. 1925

Georges Rouault
French, 1871–1958

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Georges Rouault
Title: Smooth Talker, or The Academician (Bonimenteur ou L'Académicien)
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.: 1920–1930
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed, I.r.: "G. Rouault"
Dimensions: 106.5 × 76 cm (41 7/8 × 29 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Leigh B. Block in memory of Albert D. Lasker
Reference Number: 1958.192
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

“Accessions of American and Canadian Museums,” The Art Quarterly 21, 2 (Summer 1958), pp. 227 and 230 (ill.), as L’Académicien, 1913–1915.
“Rouault ‘Academician’ to Chicago,” Art News 57:5 (September 1958), p. 29 (ill.), as The Academician, 1913–15.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), pp. 405 and 474 (ill.), as The Academician, c. 1913–1915.
A. James Speyer, “Twentieth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture,” Apollo 84:55 (September 1966), p. 225, as The Academician, 1913–15.
A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1980), p. 68, pl. 3F8, as The Academician, c. 1913–15.
Bernard Dorival and Isabelle Rouault, Rouault: L’Oeuvre peint 2 (Monte Carlo: André Sauret, 1988), p. 145, no. 1832 (ill.), as Bonimenteur or L’Académicien, 1925–1930.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Frames: Selected European Frames from The Art Institute of Chicago, October 15–December 15, 1986.

Ambroise Vollard (1867–1939), Paris, 1937 [La Renaissance 1937]. Bignou Galleries, New York, by May 1940 [New York 1940]. Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman (née Elizabeth Fuller, later Mrs. Charles Goodspeed; 1893–1980), Chicago by 1951; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1951.

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