1910, Georges Rouault, Conférencier (Speaker) -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: The dark palette and made-up face of the model transform this portrait into social satire. Like the judge, the bourgeois and the churchman, the orator was a recurrent figure in Georges Rouault's oeuvre. This elderly man is represented unforgivingly, appearing to be as tragic as he is comical. The typologies created by Rouault and their caricature inspired the poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire to identify these "terrible and distressing drawings, full of pity and irony" as following the legacy of caricaturist and painter Honoré Daumier.
1910, Georges Rouault, Conférencier (Speaker) -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: The dark palette and made-up face of the model transform this portrait into social satire. Like the judge, the bourgeois and the churchman, the orator was a recurrent figure in Georges Rouault's oeuvre. This elderly man is represented unforgivingly, appearing to be as tragic as he is comical. The typologies created by Rouault and their caricature inspired the poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire to identify these "terrible and distressing drawings, full of pity and irony" as following the legacy of caricaturist and painter Honoré Daumier.