Duo
(about 1930 -1935)
Georges Rouault 
Oil on canvas

Two clowns, outlined heavily in black, face one another. One wears a costume of intense red, while the other is dressed in harlequin colors.

Georges Rouault was a deeply spiritual man. His compassion for social outcasts and human suffering can be felt in his paintings, many of which have overtly religious subjects. As a young man, the artist was apprenticed to a stained glass painter. His choice of rich colors and black contours may be a reference to church windows and their sacred scenes.

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