I like the Cloisonné effect and 'Avenue de Clichy' is definitely his masterpiece. But The Elegant Woman is a very strange painting: The face is so lovingly achieved, but her hand looks like an escapee from German expressionism, and those cartoonish women in the background are also completely inappropriate. He seems to have leapt from one style to another, often within a single work, like this one.
Knowing that Anquetin quickly moved towards Academism after ~1890 is probably some proof of a lack of consistency. That may be why he was largely forgotten afterwards... But I really like what he did during this short "Cloisonnist" period!
I like the Cloisonné effect and 'Avenue de Clichy' is definitely his masterpiece. But The Elegant Woman is a very strange painting: The face is so lovingly achieved, but her hand looks like an escapee from German expressionism, and those cartoonish women in the background are also completely inappropriate. He seems to have leapt from one style to another, often within a single work, like this one.
Knowing that Anquetin quickly moved towards Academism after ~1890 is probably some proof of a lack of consistency. That may be why he was largely forgotten afterwards... But I really like what he did during this short "Cloisonnist" period!