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My sweet country, where are you?

Georges Rouault
France
1871 – 1958

My sweet country, where are you?
plate 44 from Miserere et Guerre
1927; published 1948
aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

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Place made: printed by Jacquemin, Paris; published by Èdition de l'Ètoile Filante, Paris
Medium: aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper
Dimensions: 42.3 x 59.7 cm (plate)
51.0 x 65.0 cm (sheet)
Credit line: Private donations and South Australian Government Grant 1958
Accession number: 586G149
Signature and date: Signed and dated in plate, l.l. "1927. G ROUAULT"
Media category: Print
Collection area: European prints

Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

and Veronica, with her soft linen, still walks the road ...

1922; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G142
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

An emancipated woman, at two o'clock, sings noon

1923; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G129
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

Are we not convicts?

1926; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G119
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

"Arise, you dead"

1927; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G157
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

At times the road is beautiful...

1922; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G121
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

Auguries

published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G148
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

A young woman called joy

1923; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G126
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

believing ourselves kings

1923; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G120
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

Death took him as he arose from his bed of nettles

1926; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G150
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

eternally flagellated...

1922; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G116
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

Face to face

1922

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G147
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

Far from the smile of Rheims

1922; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G155
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness

1923; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G114
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

Here are the tears of things ...

1926; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G137
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

"He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live"

1923; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G138
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

"He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth"

1923; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G133
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

his lawyer, in hollow phrases, proclaims his complete unconciousness...

1922; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G131
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

In a mouth which was once fresh, the taste of bitterness

1922; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G127
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

in the land of thirst and fear

1923; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G136
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

in the old district of Long Suffering

1923; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G122
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

In these dark times of vainglory and unbelief, vigilant is Our Lady of the End of the Earth

1927; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G159
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

In the winepress, the grapes were crushed

1922; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G152
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

"It is through his wounds that we are healed"

1922; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G161
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

it would be so sweet to love

1923; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G125
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

Jean-François never sings alleluia...

1923; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G135
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

Jesus despised...

1922; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G115
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

Lonely, in this life of pitfalls and malice

1922; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G118
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

Lord, it is you, I know you

1927; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G141
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

"Love one another"

1923; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G140
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

Man is a wolf to man

1926; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G144
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

My sweet country, where are you?

1927; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G149
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

"Obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross" ('Phillippians', 2, 8)

1926; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G160
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

Of so many different domains, the noble work of sowing in hostile land

1926; published 1948

aquatint over heliogravure

Accession no: 639G80
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

"Out of the depths..."

1927; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 639G79
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

Sometimes, the blind man consoles the seeing

1926; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G158
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

take refuge in your heart, vagabond of misfortune

1922; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G117
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

The Chinese invented, they say, gunpowder, made us a gift of it

1926; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G145
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

The condemned man has gone away...

1922; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G130
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

The hard work of living...

1922; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G124
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

"The just man, like sandalwood, perfume the axe that strikes him"

1922; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G151
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

The law is hard, but is the law

1926; published 1948

heliogravure, aquatint, dry point on paper

Accession no: 714G17
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

"The nobler the heart, the less stiff the collar"

1926; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G153
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

The upper class lady belies she holds a reserved seat in Heaven

1922; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G128
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

"The very ruins have been destroyed"

1926; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 6711G36
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

The Virgin of the seven swords

1926; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G156
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

This will be the last time, father!

1927; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G143
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

Tomorrow will be beautiful, said the shipwrecked man

1922; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G123
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

under a Jesus on the cross forgotten there

1926; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G132
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

We are insane

1922; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G146
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

"We ... were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death"

1924; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G139
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

Winter, leper of the earth

1922; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G134
Georges Rouault 1871 – 1958

"With tooth and nail"

1926; published 1948

aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper

Accession no: 586G154