Beginning of Round (Debut de round)
Medium
etching
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Frank Crowninshield Collection
Accession Number
1948.3.10
Art Historical Context
**Beginning of Round (Début de round)**, a dynamic etching by French artist André Dunoyer deonzac from 1922, captures raw energy of a boxing match at its tense outset. Segonzac, a prominent figure in the School of Paris, was renowned for his vigorous depictions of modern life, blending Impressionist influences with a robust, realist style. This print, part of the National Gallery of Art's Frank Crownin Collection, showcases two fighters poised in the ring, their forms rendered with fluid, incisive lines that evoke anticipation and movement. Created in the exuberant post-World War I era, the a...
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...