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June 19, 2011

Louis Anquetin (1861–1932), Jacques Maroger (1884–1962) & Édouard Dujardin (1861–1949)

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Louis Anquetin (1861–1932)
Fernand Cormon’s atelier, 1885  Toulouse-Lautrec, Emile Bernard & van Gogh; “cloisonnism” [term coined by Dujardin) use of black contour outlines & flat areas of color
Van Gogh’s Les Cafe a Arles (1888) is almost a copy of Anquetin’s L’Avenue de Clichy, Picasso used Anquetin’s Madeline (1892) as a model for his portrait Gertrude Stein (1905)
abandoned the modern art movement began to study technique & materials of great northern masters, esp. Rubens.

Jacques Maroger (1884–1962) student of Anquetin; The “secret formula” of the great masters included white lead.  Emigrated to US in 1939, Parsons & Maryland Inst.; Baltimore Realists

Édouard Dujardin (1861–1949) – along with Anquetin educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen; James Joyce claimed his style of interior monologue (stream of consciousness technique) owed its influence to works by Dujardin; editor of the journal Revue Indépendente a “voice for the symbolists”; featured with Jane Avril in Toulouse-Lautrec poster for the night club Le Divan Japonisme, watching a performance by Yvette Guilbert

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