Louis Anquetin (1861-1932) - Portrait Of Young Redhead Woman In Bust

Louis Anquetin (1861-1932)
Portrait Of A Young Redhead Woman In Bust
Oil on panel (cut on the back with a gouge)
27.5 x 21 cm
45 x 38 cm with its frame
Signed lower right "Anquetin"

Louis Emile Anquetin was born on January 26, 1861 in Etrépagny in the Eure and died in Paris on August 19, 1932. The son of a butcher, he was quickly drawn to drawing and was encouraged by his parents in his artistic vocation. In 1882 he entered the studio of Leon Bonnat (1882-1922). In 1883 he was admitted to the free studio of Fernand Cormon and continued his training for four years alongside avant-garde painters who would become his friends, Vincent van Gogh, Emile Bernard or Toulouse-Lautrec whom he took under his protection and will protect him from humiliation. An admirer with his friends of Gauguin's painting, he adopted his technique and produced a synthesis of their joint research with Émile Bernard. At the Salon des Indépendants of 1888, Edouard Dujardin baptized this new genre, “Cloisonisme”. He appeared in 1891 with the Nabis at the Parc de Bouteville and became a member until 1914 of the National Society of Fine Arts. In 1892 he exhibited at Durand-Ruel at the Salon de la Rose-Croix. Signac had said of him: “If a creative mind had only one tenth of its talent, it would produce wonders”. Works by Louis Anquetin are kept in museums in London -Tate Gallery -National Gallery, Paris-National Museum of Modern Art -Louvre Museum -Orsay Museum -Petit Palais, St Petersburg-Hermitage Museum