Edgar Chahine (1874-1947), an Armenian immigrant to France, arrived in Paris with his mother circa 1895, having received his education in Venice. Chahine’s father, a well-heeled banker, had stayed behind in Constantinople and afforded mother and son a life free of financial worry. Young Edgar took advantage of this fully. While he started his artistic career as a painter, by 1899 he was fully vested in the art of making intaglio prints. Chahine became a master, mixing etching with aquatint, often delineating in soft-ground and adding touches of drypoint where needed. He devoted much attention, especially as a young man, to street life and its many characters. Like many of his peers, he also relished in depicting elegance, even when it suggested an “underbelly” of modern life. Along with Jacques Villon and Louis Legrand, he is recognized as one of the most important etchers of the Belle Epoque in France.
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Louise France à mi-Corps (original French title) Drypoint on laid paper.Reference: Tabanelli 89. An artist’s proof, before the signature was added ...
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Avenue de Clichy – Marché en Plein Vent (original French title) Etching and aquatint on old laid paper.Reference: Tabanelli 81. Impression of the f...
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Un Gueux (original French title) Etching and aquatint on old laid paper.Reference: Tabanelli 10. On impression in black ink only. It was also prin...
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Les Singes (original French title) Etching on heavy wove paper, 1908. Reference: Tabanelli 277. Third state of three, after the background was comp...
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Contraste (original French title) Drypoint printed on thick wove paper.Reference: Tabanelli 25.One of few artists proofs in the second state of two...
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Les Manèges (original French title) Aquatint, etching and drypoint printed in bistre on laid paper.Reference: Tabanelli 280.Edition of 50.Signed in...
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Edgar CHAHINE (1874-1947) L’Italienne or Portrait de Madame B. (original French titles) Drypoint and direct bite on Arches laid paper.Reference: Ta...
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Les Lutteurs: Une Prise (original French title) Soft-ground, etching, aquatint & drypoint printed in color on Arches laid paper.Reference: Taba...
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Double Prise de Tête à Terre (original French title) Etching, soft-ground and aquatint printed in brownish-black ink on chine-collé on thick wove p...
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La Lutteuse (original French title)Etching, aquatint and drypoint printed in color on wove BFK Rives paper.Reference: Tabanelli 98.From the edition...
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Vieille Mendiante a l'Eglise (original French title) Soft-ground etching and drypoint printed in two tones on laid paper. Reference: Tabanelli 53 ...
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Les Chaussettes (original French title) Color aquatint.Reference: Tabanelli 105 ii/ii.Edition of 50, partially in color, partially in black only.Si...
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La Femme au Divan (original French title) Drypoint printed on laid Arches paper.Reference: Tabanelli 147.One of only a handful of impressions. Rare...
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Graphite on thin wove paper, c. 1906. Reference: closely related Tabanelli 162. Preparatory drawing for a print eponymously titled. Likely used to ...
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Etching and soft-ground etching printed on Arches laid paper. Ref: Tabanelli 162. Second state of two. Unnumbered impression from the edition of 25...
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Drypoint and aquatint. Ref: Tabanelli 97. Before the first state as described in Tabanelli. Proof before the letters "Imp. Delatre". Invitation mad...
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Etching and drypoint.Reference : Tabanelli 265. Final state, printed in an edition of 150, of which 100 were published by the Société des Amis de l...
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Drypoint. Ref: Tabanelli 293. Second state of two. Edition of 50. Signed and numbered "ep 3/50" in pencil. With drystamp of Sagot (Lugt 2254).
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Drypoint printed on Arches laid paper. Reference: Tabanelli 126. One of only a handful impressions of this print, for which there was no edition. S...
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Vieille Femme (original French title)Drypoint, etching, and aquatint on laid paper.Reference: Tabanelli 43. From the total edition of 40 in the sec...
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TWO PRINTS Dormeurs sur un Banc Etching, aquatint and drypoint printed in colors on laid paper, 1899.Reference: Tabanelli 11.According to Tabanelli...
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Un Gueux (original French title) Etching and aquatint on laid paper. Reference: Tabanelli 10. On impression in black ink only. Impressions in color...
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