Georges Rouault was 34 years old and barely recovered ... Rouault’s eye fell upon one of the figures: an “old clown sitting in a corner of his caravan in the process of mending his sparkling ...

The clown has replaced the wolf ... Antoine Watteau, Claude Gillot, Francisco Goya, Honoré Daumier, Gustave Courbet, Georges Seurat, James Ensor, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Georges Rouault, Pablo ...

But Georges Rouault painted to save ... and woodcuts, each clown or acrobat appears alone on a stage drawn in Rouault’s rapid, calligraphic hand, bits of curtain peeking out in the upper left ...