Up for sale from a local estate in Honolulu Hawaii this turn of the century French framed limited edition 157/500 color aquatint Cityscape with Church by the well known artist Charles Maurin (1856-1914). The condition is described above...for more details please check the photos.
Measurements:
Print 7.5 inches x 11.75 inches
Frame 16 inches x 20 inches
More about the artist:
Charles Maurin entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Paris in 1875, and later studied at the Academie Julian. He widely showed at the Salons throughout the 1880's and 1890's, and was highly admired as a draftsman by Edgar Degas, among others.
Maurin was highly adept in pastel, chalk and pencil, and he is credited with having invented the spritztechnik, the use of an atomizer to spray pigment onto the paper to create atmospheric watercolour landscapes of great beauty, of which the present work is a very rare example.
An illustrator, printmaker and teacher at the Académie Julien, Charles Maurin was associated with the Parisian avant-garde, adopting both realist and Symbolist tendencies, and from 1890 preferred to exhibit at the Salon des Indépendents rather than the Salon itself.
Condition:
The print and frame are in acceptable pre-owned condition, the print was not inspected out of the frame, the print has especially in margins brown stains in places, the inside of the glass is also dirty and stained and should be cleaned, the mat is non archival, the print can also be taken out of the frame and shipped for a fraction of the stated shipping cost
