(ROUAULT, GEORGES.) Suarès, André. Passion. 17 color aquatints by Rouault and 82 black-and-white woodcuts by George Aubert after Rouault, 455x350 mm; 17 7/8x13 3/4 inches, sheets. Folio, printed cream wrappers printed in black and russet with woodcut illustration on front cover, soiled, spine tender, joints starting; Plate VIII present but misbound at page 67; portion of original mylar dust jacket still present; brown buckram slipcase and 1/4 brown morocco slipcase, worn; contents clean. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1939
number 65 on vergé de montval from a total edition of 245, after 25 hors commerce copies. The last work published by Rouault in his lifetime. "The passion of Christ is recounted by Suarès in dramatic narrative form and illustrated by Rouault with an intensity of feeling usually equalled only in medieval art, which these plates often recall"--Garvey 252; Chapon/Rouault 257-273; The Artist and the Book 272; Monod 10492.
