The Bar (Le Bar)

1893

Not on view

With agitated curves, wiry lines, and expressive silhouettes, Séguin conveys the compressed and crowded space of a Parisian bar. The artist took up etching in 1890−91—around the same time that he began to associate with the avant-garde group who gathered in Pont Aven, Brittany—and produced some of the most aesthetically advanced works of his short career. In 1895, fellow artist Maurice Denis wrote of Seguin that "he has a sensitivity for deformation, he knows how to balance the requirements of sensibility with those of decoration." In these qualities and in subject matter, this print closely relates to the work of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec with whom Séguin was compared at the time.

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Title: The Bar (Le Bar)
Artist: Armand Séguin (French, Paris 1869–1903 Finistère, Brittany)
Date: 1893
Medium: Etching, soft-ground, and aquatint with roulette and open-bite in brown ink; second state of two
Dimensions: Plate: 15 1/2 × 9 1/8 in. (39.3 × 23.2 cm)
Sheet: 15 13/16 × 9 7/16 in. (40.1 × 24 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Purchase, Peco Foundation Gift and Susan Schulman Printseller Gift, 2024
Object Number: 2024.118
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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