Chantez Matines, le jour renait (Sing Matins, day is reborn); plate 29 of 58 from Miserere

 

Georges Rouault

  1871 - 1958 (biography)

1922 , published in 1948 

aquatint, etching, drypoint and roulette over heliogravure 

20 1/8 x 14 3/8" platemark 

initialled in the plate, lower left 

450 (425 plus 25 hors commerce) 

 

Wofsey 136 

ivory laid Arches with "Ambrose Vollard" watermark 

published 

Vollard and Editions de l'Etoile Filante, Paris 

15660 

$2,000.00 

Vollard originally commissioned "Miserere et Guerre" to be about 100 images, but then backed off. Rouault worked the plates between 1916 and 1927. He recovered the plates from Vollard in 1947 and published "Miserere" with 58 plates and without Andre Suares' text. They were issued loose, in a cloth case. Many plates were worked as many as 15 times.