Georges Rouault, Plate (page 162) from Cirque de l'étoile filante (The Shooting Star Circus), 1938 https://t.co/D9pxaNNPXA

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🎨 French expressionist painter, was 27 May 1871.

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Georges Rouault, Trial proof for We Think Ourselves Kings, plate VII from Miserere, (Book commissioned, but unpublished by Vollard; Print executed 1923; Book publi https://t.co/VVh35d5NjH

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Georges Rouault, Virgin of the Seven Swords (Vierge aux sept glaives), plate LIII from Miserere, 1926, published 1948 https://t.co/3fvlvo5jHT

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Georges Rouault, The Animal Trainers (Les Dompteurs), second plate, c. 1924-27 https://t.co/XKnL9yaULe

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Laughter in the dark
'Painting for me is merely a means of forgetting life. It is a cry in the night. A sob broken off. A strangled laugh'
born 1871 in poverty, trained as a stained glass painter. Before he died he burnt 300 paintings he couldn't finish

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