At the Bar (Au Bar)
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etching
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Frank Crowninshield Collection
Accession Number
1948.3.108
Art Historical Context
**At the Bar (Au)**, a 1929 etching by artist André Dunoyer deonzac, captures the pulse of Parisian nightlife during the exuberant *Années Folles*—France's Roaring Twenties. Segonzac, a master draftsman associated with the School of Paris, was renowned for his, realistic depictions of modern urban life, blending classical precision with contemporary subjects. This print, part of the National Gallery of Art's Frankinshield Collection, evokes the chic café-bars where intellectuals, artists, and flappers mingled amid jazz and cocktails, just before the 1929 stock market crash reshaped the world. ...
About the Artist
André Dunoyer de Segonzac
André Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884–1974) was a leading French painter, draughtsman, engraver, and illustrator, born on 6 July in Boussy-Saint-Antoine near Paris, where he spent much of his childhood alongside time in the city. Defying his parents' initial hopes for a military career at Saint-Cyr, he pursued art, enrolling in 1900 at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris as a general student. He studied u...