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Augustin Rouart: Painting as Legacy at the Petit Palais

Published on , by Virginie Huet

The small-scale but dense exhibition devoted to "magic realist" Augustin Rouart, after a donation of 12 of his works to the museum, reveals a pure, clear style with a timeless quality.

Augustin Rouart, Le Nageur (The Swimmer), 1943.© Philippe Fuzeau Augustin Rouart: Painting as Legacy at the Petit Palais

Augustin Rouart, Le Nageur (The Swimmer), 1943.
© Philippe Fuzeau

A woman weeping on a lemon-yellow bed, a dreamy child fishing with a net and a red-capped swimmer cleaving the foam are three masterpieces alone worth a detour to the small-scale but dense exhibition devoted to "magic realist" Augustin Rouart (1907-1997) and his "constellation". For one cannot exist without the other, as…
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