"A Certain Gaze" Guillaume Seignac 1918 Oil on panel

Certificate of authenticity: Guillaume Seignac (Rennes 1870-Paris 1924) "A Certain Gaze" oil on panel (37 x 28 cm) Panel: Tasset & Lhote Paris signed and dated top right G.Seignac 1918 Painter of the "Ecole d’Ecouen", Guillaume was born in Rennes on September 25, 1870, and died in Paris on October 2, 1924. (The Ecole d'Ecouen was a colony of artists established in Ecouen (Val d’Oise - Ile de France) from the 1860s-1870s, founded by the painter Pierre-Édouard Frère. It brought together several dozen personalities from around the world, who taught and practiced their art there and also had "ateliers" built. The works produced belong to the realistic and naturalist styles and mainly represent landscapes and genre scenes.) Seignac was a French painter whose artistic signature can be read under the condition of a couple of inevitable connotations. Firstly, the influence of authoritative masters of idealized realism; he was indeed a student of Bouguereau, Tony Robert Fleury, and Gabriel Ferrier at the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris. Secondly, belonging to the world of French academicism with impeccable brushwork. It is true that Seignac adopts the quality of drawing of academic drawing to replicate it with seductive adherence in his widely favored female subjects. Seignac regularly exhibited at the "Salon des Artistes Français" from 1897 to 1914. A member of the French Artists from 1901, he obtained an Honorable Mention in 1900 and a third-class Medal in 1903. Description: The protagonist of the composition is the astonishing communicative formula of a sideways glance. Solemn and piercing, the woman's oblique gaze (who perhaps does not exceed adolescence) insinuates itself from the side with a hint of pleased awareness. For the amount of curiosity we read in it, we will not judge it as full of intention, but rather overflowing with emotional nuances. And this is how Seignac reminds us of the multifaceted wonder of human communication. To the laterality of a gaze, to the fabric of the unsaid, to half-truths that aspire to nothing more than to be deciphered. (Roberto Belotti) Works in the following museums: San Francisco De Young Museum Smith College Museum of Art Phoenix Art Museum Mairie d’Ecouen Bibliography: "DICTIONNAIRE DES PEINTRES SCULPTEURS DESSINATEURS ET GRAVEURS" E.Benezit Vol. 9 (p.509) Condition: excellent In faith: