Louis ANQUETIN (1861 - 1932). Portrait of... - Lot 18 - Le Floc'h

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Louis ANQUETIN (1861 - 1932). Portrait of... - Lot 18 - Le Floc'h
Louis ANQUETIN (1861 - 1932). Portrait of Emile Bernard. Pastel on paper doubled on cardboard. (Tears and holes in the paper in the corners, wear). Height : 30,7 cm 30,7 cm - Width : 28 cm Bibliography: Frédéric Destremeau, "Les études de l'intérieur de chez Bruant par Louis Anquetin (1861 - 1932)," La revue du Louvre, 1995, p. 64. "He works with a nervous touch, seizing with a jerky writing the fluctuations of his being and the world. These rapid notations, the daring technical experiments that he allows himself, where he mixes gasoline, paint, pastel, chalk, graphite, give a "draft" aspect to his studies and show the original process of his creation. Anquetin is more respectful of conventions; his studies are pushed to the maximum in a spirit of restraint and domination, unknown to Lautrec. The study of Emile Bernard's face (the portrait we present), must be the starting portrait. The technique of this pastel is subtle, the artist has tried to treat his model while respecting the delicate modelling of his complexion. The fifth study preserved (from Albert Grenier) is the reworking of the face in pencil and pastel on tracing paper, which must have been used to transpose Emile Bernard's face onto the large cardboard box of the Amsterdam version .... Would these studies counter the idea that L'intérieur de chez Bruant was to be in the taste of Manet?" The six studies by Louis Anquetin relate to a large panel that the artist projected and ultimately did not have to be completed. From the evidence we have preserved, it seems that this project falls within Anquetin's impressionist and divisionist "phases." In a summary text on the artist, published in 1934, Emile Bernard noted on this subject that: "Parallel to these stages Anquetin pursued, in large drawings, a vast composition to represent the interior of a cabaret. He had taken that of Bruant for type, but did not intend to conform to it absolutely."
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