Beschreibung:

Armand Séguin (French, 1869-1903)
Signature: each numbered in pencil in the margin lower left
Medium: etching; (no. 33 from an edition of 35 & IV/V); (2)
Size: 7 x 6¾in. (17.78 x 17.15cm) Dimensions of Bretonne au traveil given. Measurements of Paysage Rayé 3.5 by 7.5in. Framed uniformly. Armand Séguin was part of the group of experimental artists working in Brittany in the late 1880s and 1890s, who became known as the Pont Av...Read more Dimensions of Bretonne au traveil given. Measurements of Paysage Rayé 3.5 by 7.5in. Framed uniformly. Armand Séguin was part of the group of experimental artists working in Brittany in the late 1880s and 1890s, who became known as the Pont Aven Group. Printmaking dominated Séguin's work and this appears to have helped form his strong connection with Roderic O'Conor In the summer of 1893 they worked together in Le Pouldu, an isolated Breton fishing village, where their highly experimental prints, dominated by a rhythmic use of line, were probably printed on a small press. Séguin met Gauguin in 1894 and he wrote an introduction for Séguin's Paris exhibition in 1895. Séguin and O'Conor were the two artists whom Gauguin hoped would accompany him on his return to the South Seas in 1895, demonstrating his profound respect for them both. Paintings and drawings by Séguin are extremely rare; in 2018 a large, four-panel screen sold at Christie's for over $7.5m. Few impressions of many of Séguin's prints appear to have survived and in 1964 twenty-four of Séguin's original plates were reprinted by Maurice Malingue in a main edition of 35. The present pair are from this edition. An etching by Armand Séguin was included in the exhibition 'Roderic O'Conor and the Moderns. Between Paris and Pont-Aven' (18 July to 29 October 2018) at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.