b Etrepagny, nr Gisors, 26 Jan 1861; d Paris, 19 Aug
1932.
French painter. He came to Paris in 1882 and studied art at the
Ateliers of Bonnat and Cormon, where he was a contemporary and friend of
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Emile Bernard and Vincent van Gogh. His early
work shows the influence of Impressionism and of Edgar Degas. In 1887
Anquetin and Bernard devised an innovative method of painting using
strong black contour lines and flat areas of colour; Anquetin aroused
much comment when he showed his new paintings, including the striking Avenue
de Clichy: Five O’Clock in the Evening (1887; Hartford, CT,
Wadsworth Atheneum) at the exhibition of Les XX in Brussels and at the
Salon des Indépendants in Paris in 1888. The new style, dubbed
Cloisonnisme by the critic Edouard Dujardin (1861–1949), resulted from
a study of stained glass, Japanese prints and other so-called
‘primitive’ sources; it was close to the Synthetist experiments of
Paul Gauguin and was adopted briefly by van Gogh during his Arles
period. Anquetin’s works were shown alongside Gauguin’s and
Bernard’s at the Café Volpini exhibition in 1889, where they
attracted considerable attention among younger artists.
Promenade
1892
At the
Moulin Rouge
1893
The Finish
of the Horse Race
1899 Tate Gallery, London
Marguerite
Dufay
1899
Femme dans la
rue
1928
Portrait of a Woman
1890
Chevalier
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