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GEORGES ROUAULT Le Christ en Croix accompagné d'un des Deux Larrons.
Heliogravure and engraving with extensive additions in white gouache, 1930. 528x456 mm; 20 3/4x18 inches, full margins. A mise sur cuivre proof impression of a planche refusée from Miserere, with hand coloring, before the signature and date in the plate lower left, before the lightening of the image and before the reduction of the plate. Printed by Lacourière, Paris. Commissioned by Vollard, Paris. A superb, unique impression of this extremely scarce print.
According to Wofsy, there are approximately 30 unpublished plates of Miserere subjects. He illustrates another proof of this particular subject before the lightening of the image, though the illustrated impression is still significantly lighter than the current impression. Chapon/Rouault 144; Wofsy 167.
