Les Grappes
1929/1932
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etching
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Frank Crowninshield Collection
Accession Number
1948.3.211
Art Historical Context
**Les Grappes** (*The Bunches of Grap*), an etching by French André Dunoyer de Segac from 1929/1932, captures the artist's mastery of line and form in a print that evokes the lush abundance of nature. Part of the National Gallery of Art's Frank Crownshield Collection, this work exemplifies Segonzac's post-World War I "return to order," blending classical realism with the vitality of modern life. Trained in Paris and influenced by the School of Paris Segonzac rejected abstraction for precise, elegant depictions of everyday subjects like fruits, landscapes, and figures, often drawing from his ru...
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...