Anne Estelle Rice, Café d'Harcourt (1907). John Duncan Fergusson (Scottish, 1874-19
Anne Estelle Rice, Café d'Harcourt (1907). John Duncan Fergusson (Scottish, 1874-1961). Oil on canvas.The painting depicts the beautiful and talented Anne Estelle Rice, John Duncan Fergusson’s muse and companion from his early years in Paris. Rice gazes out with dark enigmatic eyes and the suggestion of a welcoming smile spreading across her red lips. The intimacy of the expression and the relaxed pose are indicative of the closeness between the model and the artist, a record of an intense romance. The elegance and energetic joi de vie of Paris at this time are captured in the shimmering refractions of tone and flashes of deep colour. Fergusson had taken the glamorous spirit of Manet’s milliners and models but expressed the modernity of his vision of Parisian fashion in the expressive brush stokes and bold colouring. -- source link
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