Louis Anquetin - Avenue de Clichy, le soir, cinq heures 1887
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Avenue de Clichy, le soir, cinq heures 1887
68x50cm watercolor and gouache on paper
Private collection
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From Sotheby's:
L'Avenue de Clichy is today considered to be one of the major paintings by Anquetin that in 1887 led Edouard Dujardin to hail him as the chief proponent of Cloissonism. This work indeed illustrates the principle elements of this new artistic movement that affirmed the supremacy of drawing and borrowed its style from medieval stained glass windows and enamels, but also from Japanese prints. The parallel between this blue-toned gouache & watercolour and the art of stained glass was indirectly confirmed by Emile Bernard who recalled that Anquetin's monochromatic compositions were inspired by the latter's habit of looking at landscapes through panes of coloured glass. The exceptionally elegant shadowy black outlines as well as the flat treatment of the motifs of this composition are evocative of enamel work as much as stained glass.