The Bar (Le Bar)
Armand Séguin French
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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