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"tombstone": "Head of Christ, c. 1937. Georges Rouault (French, 1871\u20131958). Oil on canvas; framed: 128.9 x 99.1 x 8.9 cm (50 3/4 x 39 x 3 1/2 in.); unframed: 104.8 x 75 cm (41 1/4 x 29 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund, 1950.399. \u00a9 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris",
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"inscription": "Signed lower right: \"G. Rouault\"",
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"title": "Rouault: Retrospective Exhibition",
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"title": "Art: The International Language",
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"title": "In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.",
"description": "In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958).",
"opening_date": "1958-03-04T05:00:00"
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"id": 300779,
"title": "Juxtapositions",
"description": "Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).",
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"title": "Rouault",
"description": "Rouault. Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (February 1-March 20, 1966); Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamberg, Germany (April 1-May 1, 1966).",
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"title": "Georges Rouault",
"description": "Georges Rouault. Mus\u00e9e National d'Art Moderne, Paris, Cedex 04, France (May 27-September 27, 1971).",
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"id": 182153,
"title": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008).",
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"description": "In this monumental image of Christ, Georges Rouault created both a sacred image and the representation of a mortal human being. In reaction to an increasingly materialistic, secular society, Rouault created deeply religious art based on his Catholic faith. His early experience as an apprentice in a stained glass workshop influenced his use of black outlines and rich colors.",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry. \"A 'Head of Christ' by Georges Rouault.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 38, no. 4 (April 1951): 71-72.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: front cover; Mentioned: p. 71",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 523",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n96"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 198",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 198",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n222"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 247",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n267"
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"citation": "Hinson, Tom E. \"Insight/On Site.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 6 (1991): 246-71.",
"page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 256",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161330"
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"citation": "Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4 . [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952.",
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