Edgar Chahine was born in Vienna, Austria to Armenian parents. At age 21, he decided to travel to Paris and pursue a career in fine arts. He studied painting under formal instruction at the Académie Julian, but his natural ability and his determination to express himself as an artist led him to a personal style based more on the reality of the streets of Paris than the confines of the classroom. Chahine began to experiment with the possibilities of printmaking at the age of 25. Although he had already achieved some success with his paintings, he became fascinated with prints and soon worked exclusively in this medium. His prints were very much in demand by collectors and the well known publisher Edmond Sagot quickly became his dealer. He won several medals and awards and received many commissions. Chahine's print œuvre is an equal representation of elegant Parisian men and women, Bourgeois society and more common scenes of country fairs and street life. His sympathetic depictions of children, beggars, circus performers and other often forgotten people were engaging and touched the emotions of the observer, while his portrayals of the more fashionable side of Paris accurately captured its "joie de vivre". The death of his fiancé plunged him into a deep depression, and he left Paris to travel through Italy. This voyage gave him the serenity and the inspiration to begin working with new enthusiasm, etching the day's drawings onto copper plates in his hotel room each night. He returned with new vigor and expanded his efforts to once again include pastels and oils in his work. This productivity was not to last, as the combination of terrible events in Armenia and Syria and the outbreak of World War I rendered Chahine unable to work. Not until his marriage in 1921 did he begin to make art again. In 1925, he became a French citizen and began a new burst of creative activity in fine prints and illustrated books. Many of Chahine's prints were lost in a fire in his atelier in 1926, and many more were destroyed in a flood in 1942.
Mademoiselle Cyclone
By Edgar Chahine
Located in Middletown, NY
A wonderful, rare image by a pivotal 19th century Printmaker whose work serves as a bridge between social realism and the exuberant, often gritty glamour of Parisian cabaret culture....
Drypoint, Etching
La Seine à Courbevoie
By Edgar Chahine
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on heavy cream wove paper, 11 5/8 x 18 1/4 inches (295 x 460mm); sheet 16 3/4 x 22 1/2 inches (425 x 570 mm), full margins. A superb proof printed in bistre brow...
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Ponte dei Baratteri, Venice
By Edgar Chahine
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on chine collé laid down to cream wove paper, 12 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches (318 x 217 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, and numbered 68/100 in pencil, lower margin. Th...
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
"Rio Ca Foscari, Venice" original etching
By Edgar Chahine
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Catalogue reference: Tabanelli 220. This impression on watermarked laid paper was printed in 1906 and published by Gazette des Beaux Arts. Plate size: 8 5/8...
Etching
La Promenade Etching, Art Nouveau, Signed, Edition of 50, 1900s
By Edgar Chahine
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Promenade Etching, soft-ground, aquatint & drypoint, Signed in pencil lower left Published by Edmund Sagot, Paris Edition of 50 in black only, aside from the edition of 50 in co...
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
"La Promenade" original etching
By Edgar Chahine
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and drypoint. A rich, dark impression on laid paper, printed in 1900 and published in Paris for the Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. Plate size: 4 1/2 x 8 5...
Etching
Riva San Giuliano
By Edgar Chahine
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with drypoint on cream laid paper with a deckle edge, 7 7/8 x 13 1/8 inches ( 200 x 334 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 27/100 in pencil in the lower margin. With two ...
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
"San Gimignano Colline Poggio" original etching
By Edgar Chahine
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and drypoint. This impression in sepia on watermarked laid paper was printed in 1907 and published in Paris for the Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. Plate s...
Etching
"Church Of San Ruffino, Assisi" original etching
By Edgar Chahine
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. This impression in sepia on watermarked laid paper was printed in 1907 and published in Paris for the Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. Plate size: 6 1/8 x ...
Etching
" Horse & Carriage " By Edgar Chahine
By Edgar Chahine
Located in San Francisco, CA
C. Late 19th Century / Early 20th Century - Etching depicting a Horse & Carriage by Edgar Chahine ( Pencil Signed )
Pencil, Etching
Femme au Chale - Hand-Signed Etching, Figurative Print, Circa 1900
By Edgar Chahine
Located in Roma, IT
Image Dimensions : 22 x 16 cm. Hand signed. Passepartout included : 49 x 34 cm Edgar Chahine was a French painter, engraver and illustrator.
Etching
La Marchande des Quatres-Saisons
By Edgar Chahine
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with drypoint on cream wove paper, 11 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches (297 x 347 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil and numbered 32/40, lower margin. Minor mat tone and several small lo...
Handmade Paper, Rag Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Edgar Chahine (1874-1947) - Framed Early 20th Century Etching, Seated for Supper
By Edgar Chahine
Located in Corsham, GB
A crisp etching of a french women seated at the supper table. Chahine has captured the figure with a disgruntled expression, staring down at a half eaten plate of food. The thought p...
Etching
Venise, Nina
By Edgar Chahine
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Venise, Nina Etching and drypoint, 1923 Signed lower left (see photo) Titled lower right (see photo) Edition 100 Edition: 100 Printed on light green chine collee paper Condition: Exc...
Drypoint
"Alfred Stevens" original etching and drypoint on japon paper
By Edgar Chahine
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and drypoint. This is an earlier-state proof before letters were added for the final published edition. Printed in 1900 for Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Plate siz...
Etching
"Promenade" original etching
By Edgar Chahine
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. A rich impression in sepia on wove paper, printed in 1905 and published in Paris for the Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. Plate size: 11 x 7 3/4 inches (27...
Etching
$4,350
20th century etching figurative landscape city street black and white signed
By Edgar Chahine
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Venise" is an original etching and chine colle by Edgar Chahine. This is an artist's proof, the third state of the etching, and the artist signed the piece in pencil lower right. Th...
Etching
"La Promanade" Black and White Print of a Women in a Carriage Edition
By Edgar Chahine
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white print of an upper class women in a carriage. There are other figures in the back riding in a carriage as well. Edition 17 of 58. Painting is signed by the artist and ...
Engraving
$800
H 12.5 in W 8.75 in
Untitled: Head of A Woman 2
By George Zachary Constant
Located in New York, NY
George Zachary Constant (American/Greek 1892-1978), "Untitled: Head Of A Woman No. 2", Portrait/ Figurative Etching and Drypoint signed on Paper, 12.50 x 8.75 (15.25 x 11.50 Framed),...
Drypoint, Etching
French Etching - Place Stanislas
Located in Houston, TX
Playful black and white etching of a child figure looking out on a quaint city square in Nancy, France, 1959. Signed and dated lower right, titled and numbered 16 of 140 lower left. ...
Paper, Ink, Etching
Dames charmante et charmante a tous egard
By Marc Chagall
Located in Fairlawn, OH
(A charming lady chatting with a lady perfect in every possible way) Signed in the plate. No pencil signed impressions are existent. Edition: 368 (including 50 imps on japan) includi...
Etching
$12,253
H 14.18 in W 18.51 in
Patron et sa Suite en Visite à l’Atelier - Etching by P. Picasso - 1968
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed. Edition 35 of 50. From the Serie “Les 347”, table no. 110. Perfect impression on vélin blanc, very fresh and with sheet in full margins and perfect conditions, numbered ...
Drypoint, Aquatint
Auction
By Bernhard Kretzschmar
Located in New York, NY
Bernard Kretzschmar (1889-1972), Auction, etching, drypoint, and burnished aquatint, 1921, signed and dated (’20) in pencil lower right [also initialed in the plate lower left] Refe...
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
$40,000
H 11.42 in W 15.36 in
Le Cocu Magnifique -- complete with 12 original etchings
By Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
About In-folio Oblong Dimensions : 29x39 cm. Paris Atelier Crommelynck 1968 Edition #41 of 200 copies including 12 original out-of-text etchings (7 etchings, 4 etchings and aquatint...
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
$1,061
H 7.88 in W 15.16 in
Behind the Frog - 21st Century Contemporary Landscape Etching
By Charles Donker
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Charles Donker Behind the Frog 20 x 38,5 (Framed included in price, 42 x 59 cm) Etching on paper The etchings of Charles Donker are admired and collected both in the Netherlands and...
Etching
$6,885
H 22.29 in W 10.52 in D 0.04 in
Promenade dans la Neige - Etching by J. Tissot - 1880
By James Tissot
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful print on verge crème, 2° state on 3, with letters printed in red. Stamp “Lugt 1545”. Little crack and fold on lower left margin of the sheet. Some small traces of oxidati...
Drypoint, Etching
$21,590
H 14.57 in W 20.08 in D 0.08 in
Portrait of Adolph Menzel - Etching by Giovanni Boldini - 1897
By Giovanni Boldini
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Adolph Menzel is a magnificent drypoint realized by Giovanni Boldini in 1897. Reference: Buzzoni / M. Toffanello, Museo Giovanni Boldini, G...
Drypoint, Etching
$850
H 21.38 in W 27.19 in
Royal Hospital att Greenwich to the River /// "Vitruvius Britannicus" Engraving
By Colen Campbell
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Colen Campbell (Scottish, 1676-1729) Title: "Royal Hospital att Greenwich to the River" (Vol. 1, Plates 86, 87) Portfolio: Vitruvius Britannicus; or The British Architect, Co...
Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio, Etching
$1,061
H 9.26 in W 7.09 in
Waning Moon - 21st Century Contemporary Landscape Etching
By Charles Donker
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Charles Donker Waning Moon 23,5 x 18 (Framed included in price, 44,5 x 37 cm) Etching on paper The etchings of Charles Donker are admired and collected both in the Netherlands and a...
Etching
$16,000Sale Price|36% Off
H 31.5 in W 21.5 in D 2 in
La Duchesse de Marlborough, Consuelo Vanderbilt
By Paul César Helleu
Located in Plano, TX
Paul César Helleu. La Duchesse de Marlborough, Consuelo Vanderbilt. c. 1901. Drypoint. 21 1/2 x 13 3/4 (sheet 24 x 15). A rich impression printed o...
Drypoint, Etching
Sold
H 4.14 in W 8.31 in
"La vallee fertile, pres Monte Oliveto Maggiore" original etching
By Edgar Chahine
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Catalogue reference: Tabanelli 199. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1906 and published by Gazette des Beaux Arts. Plate size: 4 x 8 1/2 inches ...
Etching
Sold
H 8.86 in W 11.74 in D 0.04 in
Portraits of Women - Original Ink by Edgar Chahine - Early 20th Century
By Edgar Chahine
Located in Roma, IT
Portraits of Women is an Original China Ink Drawing realized by Edgar Chahine (1874-1947). Good condition included a blue and cream colored cardboar...
Ink
Sold
H 21.46 in W 17.13 in
Nana, early 20th Century Armenian/French Pastel Portrait
By Edgar Chahine
Located in London, GB
EDGAR CHAHINE (1874-1947) Nanà Signed; signed, inscribed with title and the artist’s address on a label on the backboard Pastel 54.5 by 43.5 cm., 21 ½ by 17 ¼ in. (frame size 75 b...
Pastel
Portrait of Baudelaire
By Edgar Chahine
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed by the artist in pencil lower left Provenance: Paul Proute References: Bibliotheque Nationale inventory no. 207 From: Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Mal" (Flowers of Evil) ...
Drypoint, Etching
PORTRAIT OF DE M. GERBEAU
By Edgar Chahine
Located in New Orleans, LA
This drypoint by Edgar Chahine depicts a portrait of an important collector of 18th and 19th Century French prints. Chahine created this rare 1904 drypoint in an edition of only 35. ...
Drypoint
Ginette
By Edgar Chahine
Located in New York, NY
Edgar Chahine (1874-1947), Ginette, drypoint, 1915, signed in pencil lower left, titled lower right, and numbered (19/50). Reference: Tabanelli 333, only state. In very good conditio...
Drypoint
Gigolette
By Edgar Chahine
Located in New York, NY
Edgar Chahine (1874-1947), Gigolette, drypoint, 1924, signed in pencil. Tabanelli 399, from the edition of 50 proofs. Only state. On a china applique...
Drypoint
Les Buttes Chaumont (Premier Planche)
By Edgar Chahine
Located in New York, NY
Edgar Chahine (1874-1947), Les Buttes Chaumont (Premier Planche), drypoint, 1917, signed in pencil lower left, annotated “ep d’artiste”, titled lower r...
Drypoint
Campo Santa Margherita, Venise.
By Edgar Chahine
Located in Plano, TX
tabanelli 346. 7 7/8 x 13 3/4 (sheet 10 1/2 x 15 3/8. Edition 100. A tonal, atmospheric impression printed on antique cream laid paper. Tonal wiping helps to create the dreamlike qua...
Drypoint, Etching
Rio ca Foscari, Venice
By Edgar Chahine
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
An original etching by French artist Edgar Chahine (1874-1947) titled "Rio ca Foscari, Venice", 1906. Signed in the plate lower left. Sheet size: 10.75" x 7". Ima...
Etching