Andre Suares
1926
Medium
lithograph
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1946.21.324
Art Historical Context
Georges Rouault's *André Suares* (1926) is a striking lithograph portrait honoring the French poet and critic André Suar, a key literary figure of the early 20th century. during the interwar years, when Rouault was at the height of his career, this print the artist's deep engagement with the intellectual elite of Paris. Housed in the National Gallery of Art's Rosenwald Collection, it exemplifies Rouault's transition from painting to masterful printmaking, allowing him to reach wider audiences with his introspective vision. Rouault, influenced by Fauvism and Expressionism under the tutelage of...
About the Artist
Georges Rouault
Georges-Henri Rouault was born on May 27, 1871, in a Paris cellar during the violent "Bloody Week" of the Paris Commune, when a stray shell destroyed his family's home in the working-class Belleville district. Raised by a carpenter father who worked at the Pleyel piano factory and a grandfather who collected prints by Honoré Daumier, Rembrandt, Courbet, and Manet, Rouault showed early artistic pro...