id: 140162 accession number: 1964.161 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.161 updated: 2022-01-04 16:26:46.098000 End of Autumn, No. 4, 1952. Georges Rouault (French, 1871-1958). Oil on canvas; framed: 103.5 x 134.6 x 11.4 cm (40 3/4 x 53 x 4 1/2 in.); unframed: 75 x 105.4 cm (29 1/2 x 41 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Sampliner 1964.161 © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris title: End of Autumn, No. 4 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1952 creation date earliest: 1952 creation date latest: 1952 current location: creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Sampliner copyright: © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris --- culture: France, 20th century technique: oil on canvas department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Georges Rouault (French, 1871-1958) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 103.5 x 134.6 x 11.4 cm (40 3/4 x 53 x 4 1/2 in.); Unframed: 75 x 105.4 cm (29 1/2 x 41 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower right: G. Rouault translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Fifty Years of Modern Art opening date: 1966-06-15T04:00:00 Fifty Years of Modern Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 15-July 31, 1966). title: Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-05-27T00:00:00 Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008). title: Stories From Storage opening date: 2021-02-07T05:00:00 Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Mr. Paul H. Sampliner [1898-1975] and Mrs. Paul H. Sampliner [1898-2000], New York, NY, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -1964 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1964- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: At the age of fourteen, Rouault worked as an apprentice to a glass painter and medieval window restorer. This early life experience is said to be the source of the heavy black lines that characterize his style. digital description: Rouault, often associated with Expressionism and Fauvism, art movements that emphasized an emotional interpretation of subjects, stands out among avant-garde artists for placing his Christian faith at the center of his art. He painted this autumn landscape six years before his death. Figures wander in a broad landscape beneath a glowing sky, evoking associations with the biblical flight into Egypt. The jewel-like greens, blues, reds, and yellows encased in strong, dark lines reflect his early training as a stained glass window painter. wall description: Painted just six years before the artist’s death during the "autumn" of his life, this landscape is characteristic of Georges Rouault’s late expressionist works, infused with spirituality and nostalgia. Figures wander and congregate in a broad wilderness beneath a glowing sky, evoking associations with the biblical Flight into Egypt. Rouault returned to the classical influences of 17th-century artists Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin, which had inspired him at the beginning of his career, and adapted them to the style he learned as a student in the studio of Gustave Moreau, a Symbolist artist whose mystical landscapes and pictorial techniques made an enduring impact. Leaving behind his darker palette, Rouault combined in this work jewel-like hues of greens, blues, reds, and yellows to create a lyrical mood. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Venturi, Lionello. Rouault, Biographical and Critical Study. New York, NY: Skira, 1959. page number: Reproduced: p. 105; Mentioned: p. 106 url: Courthion, Pierre. Georges Rouault. New York, NY: H.N. Abrams, 1962. page number: Reproduced: p. 454 url: Henning, Edward B. Fifty Years of Modern Art, 1916-1966. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: no. 48 url: Dorival, Bernard. Rouault: l'œuvre peint. Monte-Carlo, Monaco, France: Éditions André Sauret, 1988. page number: Mentioned and Reperoduced: p. 265 url: Kang, Soo Yun. Rouault in Perspective: Contextual and Theoretical Study of His Art. Lanham, MD: International Scholars Publications, 2000. page number: Mentioned: p. 246; Reproduced: fig. 79 url: --- IMAGES