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Armand SEGUIN

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Le Soir, or La Glaneuse. 1894. SÉGUIN Armand (Paris 1869 † 1903 Châteauneuf-du-Faou) Etching, aquatint and roulette, printed in brown. 230 x 228 [573 x 390] mm Wide margins. Good condition. Ref: Field, Strauss & Wagstaff, no. 68. Boyer & Cate, "L'Estampe Originale, Artistic printmaking in France 1893-1895", cat. exp. (Jane Voorhees Zimmerli art museum, New Brunswick, N.J., Sept. 15. -Nov. 19, 1991, Van Gogh museum, Amsterdam, Dec. 13, 1991-Jan. 26, 1992), 1991, Zwolle, Netherlands, Waanders; Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, 1991, no. 79. Caroline Boyle-Turner, "The Prints of the Pont-Aven School: Gauguin and his circle in Brittany", cat. exp., (Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh Amsterdam, The Phillips collection, Washington, D. C.,The Museum of Modern Art, New-York City, The Royal Academy of arts, London, 1986), Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, n°S22 (reproduced). Proof from an edition of 100 copies on cream laid paper, bearing the dry stamp of "L'Estampe Originale" (Lugt n°819), numbered 41 and signed "a. Seguin" in graphite by the artist. Known proofs: Art Institute of Chicago (inv. 1963.21), Kemper Art Museum in Saint-Louis (inv. WU 1999.04), Bibliothèque nationale de France (inv. DC-681 (2)-FOL), National Gallery of Art in Washington (proof numbered 55, inv. 2001.136.74). Trained at the École des Arts Décoratifs alongside Henri-Gabriel Ibels, Armand Seguin was impressed by a visit to the "Impressionist and Synthetist Group" exhibition at the Café Volpini, and joined the Nabis in 1889. In 1891, he moved to Pont-Aven, where he met Émile Bernard and befriended Roderic O'Connor. O'Connor introduced him to the etching technique and maintained a long correspondence. Séguin met Paul Gauguin in 1894. More than for his painting, he was noticed for his talent as an engraver and illustrator, influenced by Emile Bernard and the aesthetics of Japanese prints. Tuberculosis took his life at the age of 34, in Châteauneuf-du-Faou, where he had settled in 1900 with Paul Sérusier. This work is a repeat of another Seguin print, La Glaneuse (Field, no. 58), executed the same year. Here, the artist simplifies the folds of the dress and replaces the headdress with the small white bonnet worn by the women of Le Pouldu. The place depicted is the same as that painted by Gauguin in Femme en Bretagne, dated 1889 by Wildenstein but dated 1894 by Field after this print.

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