Rouault's Baudelaire

(Baudelaire, Charles) Rouault, Georges

Portrait of Charles Baudelaire

Lithograph. 8.3 x 6.5 in. (21.2 x 16.5 cm.), [Paris: 1926]. No. 2 of 35 copies SIGNED AND NUMBERED by the artist in pencil; with his stamp lower left. Slight spotting to lower margin. Framed and glazed.

Superb image of the brooding genius so greatly admired by Rouault, who included it in the second edition of his collection, SOUVENIRS INTIMES (Paris: E. Frapier, 1927), with portraits of Suares, his mentor Gustave Moreau (2), Leon Bloy, and J.K. Huysmans Rauch 149; Chapon & I. Rouault II, nos. 310-315 and p. 264.

Item #234586       Price: $2,500.00