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Louis ANQUETIN

Étude de nu féminin 1

Fin XIXème - Début XXème, 23 x 36 cm.

Original pencil drawing. Signature stamp of the artist's signature in the lower right corner of the work, and signature stamp on the back of the workshop. Slight traces of folding, two tiny tears in the left margin (1 cm) and right margin (0.5 cm), otherwise very good condition. Provenance: the artist's studio, referenced to catalog Atelier Louis Anquetin (Thierry de Maigret, 28/11/08). Louis Anquetin, Étrépagny born in 1861 and died in Paris in 1932, is an important French painter. He began his career with avant-garde painters such as Vincent Van Gogh and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. With Émile Bernard, he is the inventor of Cloisonnisme. From 1884 to 1893, Louis Anquetin continues to explore new possibilities introduced by the release of Impressionism in French painting. From 1893, after a long confrontation with the "old masters", he adopts a bias pictorial which will put margins of the general art movement, and take away from his friends. Dazzled by Baroque art and its creative force, so he thinks his childhood friends were engaged in a path that will lead to the death of painting. He believes in a "perfect painting" that is embodied in the re-remember the lessons of Michelangelo and Rubens among others. His work becomes more conventional, he advocated a return to business by offering to reflect on the a priori conditions of any possible form of art in accordance with the rules of perspective and anatomy, as practiced by the masters the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Leaving only a few works that can be described as monumental, Anquetin turns prolific with its many studies and sketches, who considered that the design was "a very powerful medium of expression," the mandatory basis for all arts plastics. By working backwards voluntarily of his time, Louis Anquetin made possible the existence of an original modern figuration. By his obstinacy and his passion for painting, he has indeed prevented is completely blocked the path of the great Western tradition. You can see her work in many prestigious museums such as the Musée d'Orsay or the Louvre in Paris, San Francisco and Detroit, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the National Gallery and the Tate London, etc.

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