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CHARLES ANGRAND. SELF-PORTRAIT

Self-Portrait. Artist: Charles Angrand (French, Criquetot-sur-Ouville 1854-1926 Rouen). Dimensions: 24 x 17 1/2 in. (61 x 44.4 cm). Date: 1892.
A close friend and follower of Georges Seurat and a founding member of the Neo-Impressionist movement, Angrand was a master of Conté crayon, preferring to work in its limited palette of black, white, and gray. Here Angrand presents himself, not at all as an artist, but as a bourgeois dandy, impeccably dressed and smoking a cigar. Angrand's technical ability in this self-portrait is stunning. In the words of an early critic, Angrand's image seems to emerge from a "luminous mist." Fellow Neo-Impressionist Paul Signac praised Angrand's crayon drawings: "his drawings are masterpieces. It would be impossible to imagine a better use of white and black. These are the most beautiful drawings, poems of light, of fine composition and execution." Many of the Neo-Impressionists were friends, as evidenced by the numerous extant Conté crayon depictions they made of themselves and of one another.

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Auteur:

CHARLES ANGRAND (1854-1926)

Titre:

SELF-PORTRAIT

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Self-Portrait. Artist: Charles Angrand (French, Criquetot-sur-Ouville 1854-1926 Rouen). Dimensions: 24 x 17 1/2 in. (61 x 44.4 cm). Date: 1892. A close friend and follower of Georges Seurat and a founding member of the Neo-Impressionist movement, Angrand was a master of Conté crayon, preferring to work in its limited palette of black, white, and gray. Here Angrand presents himself, not at all as an artist, but as a bourgeois dandy, impeccably dressed and smoking a cigar. Angrand's technical ability in this self-portrait is stunning. In the words of an early critic, Angrand's image seems to emerge from a "luminous mist." Fellow Neo-Impressionist Paul Signac praised Angrand's crayon drawings: "his drawings are masterpieces. It would be impossible to imagine a better use of white and black. These are the most beautiful drawings, poems of light, of fine composition and execution." Many of the Neo-Impressionists were friends, as evidenced by the numerous extant Conté crayon depictions they made of themselves and of one another.

Technique/matériel:

Conté crayon (graphite border on all edges) on white laid paper mounted on board

Musée:

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Crédit:

Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

Autorisations:

Modèle: Non - Propriété: Non
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Taille de l'image:

3038 x 4094 px | 35.6 MB

Taille d'impression:

25.7 x 34.7 cm | 10.1 x 13.6 in (300 dpi)

Mots clés:

CHARLES ANGRAND • EUROPE (CONTINENT) • FRANCE • METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK, USA