Armand SEGUIN: Femme assise - 1893/1894

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[Seated woman]

Etching, 182 x 85 mm. Field, Strauss and Wagstaff 54.

Very fine impression printed in dark brown with surface tone on laid paper with watermark (upper part of a coat of arms). Two marks stamped by Seguin bottom right below the image. Lifetime impression.

Print in perfect condition. A few pale foxmarks and three diagonal creases in the margins. A tiny repaired loss of paper in the upper margin. Full margins (sheet: 330 x 250 mm).

Seguin sometimes applied up to three stamped marks in different colors on his prints. On this print, the stamped mark AS appears in pink and the stamped mark EAS appears in green and yellow. Regarding the EAS mark, the catalogue raisonné by Field, Strauss and Wagstaff offers two readings: “Épreuve Armand Seguin” (“Armand Seguin's Artist Proof”) or “Ergasterium Armand Seguin”, ergasterium signifying a workshop in Nabi terminology.

This Sitting Woman belongs to a series of around twenty sketches of young Breton women (F., S. and W. 44 to 65) etched by Seguin in 1893-1894. He was particularly interested in the outline of the figures, often in profile or seen from behind, audaciously framed. Caroline Boyle-Turner notes Paul Gauguin's opinion on this series and on Seguin's strokes on the occasion of the exhibition at Le Barc de Boutteville's in 1895: “Seguin is first and foremost a cerebral type... He expresses, not what he sees, but what he thinks, through the original harmony of the lines.” (catalogue Gauguin & l’École de Pont-Aven, Marianne Grivel (dir.), 1989, p. 94).

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