18. Louis Anquetin
(1861-1932)

Programme pour Le Théâtre Libre : La Fille d’Artaban ; La Nébuleuse ; Dialogue Inconnu

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Anquetin: Le Théâtre Libre

Programme pour Le Théâtre Libre : La Fille d’Artaban ; La Nébuleuse ; Dialogue Inconnu

Lithograph, 1896, 293 x 222 mm., Aitken 34. Fine impression on thick, coated wove paper, the full sheet with blank margins around the subject and text, signed in pencil. Anquetin was a French painter and printmaker, a friend and fellow student of Toulouse-Lautrec and later of Émile Bernard and Vincent van Gogh. He and Bernard were active in a style called cloisonnism, which aroused considerable interest at the time, but he later, like Bernard, abandoned modern movements to study and emulate old masters. The plays here are, respectively, by Alfred Mortier, Louis Dumur and Alfred de Vigny.