Edgar Chahine
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| Էդգար Շահին | |
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Edgar Chahine (Armenian: Էդգար Պետրոսի Շահին: 31 October 1874, in Vienna – 18 March 1947, in Paris) was a French painter, engraver, and illustrator of Armenian descent.[1]
Biography
Edgar Chahine was born in
Légion d'Honneur in 1932. 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.[citation needed
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Legacy
In 1928 a museum in Crouttes–Vimoutiers in the Orne region of France was named after him, Musée Chahine.
References
- ^ a b "Edgar Chahine". International Fine Print Dealers Association. Archived from the original on 14 January 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- ^ a b "Artist Edgar Chahine and "La Belle Époque"". Art Gallery Belian. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
- Benoît Noël, préface de Wanda Polat, Edgar Chahine peintre-graveur 1874–1947, Ste Marguerite des Loges, Éditions BVR, 2008
- Uhla Ehrendväld et al., Catalogue de l'exposition Chahine – Paris, Paris, Musée Carnavalet, 1982.
- Charles Pérusseaux et al., Catalogue de l'exposition Edgar Chahine – peintre-graveur, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1980.
- Marcello et Rosalba Tabanelli, Catalogue de l'œuvre gravé d'Edgar Chahine, Milan, Il mercante di stampe editore, 1975.
- Claude Blaizot et Jean Edouard Gautrot, Chahine Illustrateur – Catalogue raisonné et illustré, Paris, Librairie Auguste Blaizot, 1974.
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