Maturity 1930-48
Rouault had started a process of simplification of form and design with printing. Towards 1940, the figures are so refined and reduced to the essential, that they become signs, symbolic geometries. Rouault does not cross the limits of the figurative but verges on abstraction. He remains a visionary painter who, faithful to the lesson of Moreau, listens to his inner voice.

Suarès writes to Rouault: “You have studied the masters. You have followed them; and you have understood their important message: it is to be oneself.”

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