Pastel on paper
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Meal
Presented by A.E. Anderson through the Art Fund 1926
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paper unique pastel
The Meal
support: 276 × 283 mm
Presented by A.E. Anderson through the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 1926
<p><b>Georges Rouault</b> 1871-1958</p>
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rouault-the-meal-n04141" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04141</span></a> <b>Le Repas</b> (The Meal) 1900</p>
<p>Inscribed 'G. Rouault 1900' b.r. 
<br/>Pastel on paper (irregular), 10 7/8 x 11 1/16 (27.7 x 28.1) 
<br/>Presented by A.E. Anderson through the NACF 1926 
<br/><i>Prov</i>: With or through Etienne Bignou, Paris; with Alex. Reid, Glasgow, 1924; through Lefevre, London; A.E. Anderson, London, 1925 
<br/><i>Exh: Works of Some of the Most Eminent French Painters of To-day</i>, Alex. Reid, Glasgow, October 1924 (27) as 'Le Repas'; Lefevre Galleries, London, November 1924 (27); <i>Braque and Rouault</i>, Tate Gallery, April-May 1946 (71); <i>Rouault</i>, RSA, Edinburgh, August-September 1966 (8, repr.); Tate Gallery, October-November 1966 (8, repr.) 
<br/><i>Repr: Cahiers d'Art</i>, 1952, p.103</p>
<p>An example of Rouault's little-known early phase. It is possibly the work of this date exhibited in <i>Oeuvres de Georges Rouault de 1897 à 1919</i>, Galerie Druet, Paris, April-May 1924 (2) as 'At the Chateau'.</p>
<p><b>Published in</b>: 
<br/>Ronald Alley, <i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.663-4, reproduced p.663</p>

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adults arts and entertainment dining room domestic domestic eating eating and drinking fine arts and music flower furnishings glass group groups instrument, lute interiors kitchen leisure and pastimes musician objects people picture plants and flowers servant table vase vessels and containers woman work and occupations