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.
"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
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
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
"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
"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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
"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
$1,142
H 11.82 in W 16.54 in D 0.04 in
Piazza di San Giovanni in Laterano - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - 18th century
By Giuseppe Vasi
Located in Roma, IT
Piazza di San Giovanni in Laterano is an original etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. Signed and titled on plate lower margin. Good conditions and aged mar...
Etching
$465
H 14 in W 11 in D 0.25 in
Figurative Etching of Two Girls in Gowns, Line Drawing
By Dorian Krausz
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate drypoint etching of two girls by Dorian Krausz (American, b. 1948). Signed "Dorian Krausz" in the lower right corner. Numbered "196/300" in the lower left corner. Presented ...
Paper, Ink, Drypoint
$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
$21,563
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
Munichau (Austria)
By Luigi Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Munichau (Austria)" 1926, is a color etching on paper by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir, 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist's estate at the lower center. The plate mark (image) size is 11.5 x 11.5 inches, framed size is 21 x 20.75 inches. Custom framed in a wooden gold frame, with grey/green matting . It is in Excellent condition. About the artist. Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes.[1] He died in 1962 in Grinzing, a suburb of Vienna.Kasimir was among the first to develop the technique of the coloured etching. Before this, prints were usually hand-coloured with the colour being applied in a casual, haphazard manner. Kasimir would first create a sketch usually in pastel, he then transferred the design on as many as four to six plates, printing one after the other and applying the colour on the plate, all done by hand. Kasimir is mainly famous for his etchings, but he also produced some oil painting, as well as some pastels. One of his favourite genres was the landscape, or veduta. He demonstrated a predisposition street scenes, and tourist landmarks. He depicted places from all over Europe, mainly Italy, Austria, and Germany. He also travelled to the United States to do a series of etchings of famous sights ranging from urban landmarks such as New York City skyscrapers, to natural wonders like Yosemite Valley. Luigi Kasimir’s etchings...
Etching
$2,750Sale Price|21% Off
H 7.13 in W 5.25 in D 0.5 in
The Gargoyle and His Quarry
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Plano, TX
The Gargoyle and His Quarry, Notre Dame. 1920. Etching.Fletcher 90. 7 1/8 x 5 1/4 (sheet 10 1/2 x 9 1/16). Gargoyle series #1. Edition 75. A rich impression printed on 'FJHead&Co' c...
Drypoint, Etching
$998
H 36 in W 24 in D 0.1 in
Original Midget Dream #1 psychedelic 1967 vintage poster - popart
By Peter Max
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Peter Max’s “Midget Dream #1” vintage psychedelic poster. In very fine condition, never displayed, and ready to frame. Grade...
Offset
LE PETIT CAVALIER SUR BOIS.
By Jean Baptiste Corot
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JEAN-BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT (1876 - 1875) LE PETIT CAVALIER SUR BOIS. 1854 (1921) (Delteil 42) Cliché-verre on thin vellum. Signed in plate at bottom. 8 1/4 x 6 5/16” (sheet size)....
Photographic Paper, Etching
$1,600
H 9.25 in W 13 in
Tambien Esto Etching, Romantic Style, Early 19th Century, Excellent
By Francisco Goya
Located in Aventura, FL
Tambien esto / So is this (Disasters of War, plate 43, Harris 163, Delteil 162). Original etching, burnished aquatint, and burnisher, c. 1808-1814. The clergy are running; their floc...
Drypoint, Etching, Paper
OLD WESTMINSTER BRIDGE
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Portland, ME
Whistler, James A. M. OLD WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. Etching and Drypoint, 1859. Glascow 47,Kennedy 39 .Third State of four. Printed on thin laid paper with watermark (Pro Patria?). The dry...
Etching
Mountain Colors, by Stephen McMillan
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Spring Flowers on Mt Baker from Skyline Divide, Mt Baker Wilderness, WA. "The trail out Skyline Divide follows a ridge toward Mt Baker. This was the view from my campsite on the rid...
Etching, Aquatint
$1,060
H 11.62 in W 9.38 in
Forest VII - 21st Century Contemporary Landscape Etching
By Charles Donker
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Charles Donker Forest VII 29,5 x 23,8 (Framed included in price, 52,5 x 45 cm) Etching on paper The etchings of Charles Donker are admired and collected both in the Netherlands and ...
Etching
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....
Etching, Drypoint
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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
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