Georges rouault paintings of christ

(1871-1958)

The Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection all began with one painting by Georges Rouault.

Georges rouault paintings of christ

discovered on the website of a London art gallery in a random internet search of Christ imagery.  Numerous religious art objects had come my way, mostly picked up as travel souvenirs, but after encountering Rouault’s Christ et docteur on-line I took the plunge into serious art collecting.

The oil on paper mounted on canvas study of Christ and a Pharisee vividly captured for me the secret nighttime meeting of Jesus and Nicodemus recorded in the third chapter of the Gospel of John. In Rouault’s rendering of the scene, you see the somber, ascetic Christ extending an all-embracing arm in love toward the worldly-wise, doubting doctor of the law.

Only Rembrandt could equal this!

I was able to acquire a second masterpiece from the Rouault family collection at the One Hundred Masterworks of Georges Rouault exhibition at the Galerie Tamenaga in Paris