From the Vaults: George Rouault’s Circus of the Shooting Star (1938) from the Aramont Library

In this segment of From the Vaults in RBSCD, Stephanie Stillo continues to explore treasures from the Aramont Library. George Rouault’s Circus of the Shooting Star (1938) was a massive undertaking by one of the most creative artists of the twentieth century. Rouault’s circus contains seventy-four wood engravings and seventeen complex aquatints to illustrate the artist’s deeply spiritual rumination on humanity and hope.
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