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Original etching on heavy wove paper by Canadian artist Frank Milton Armington (1876-1941) titled "Une Rue a Nuremberg", 1912. Issued unsigned. Limited edition: unknown, presumed small. Comes with its original cover sleeve as issued by Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Reference: Sanchez & Seydoux, 1912 – No. 10. Sheet size: 10" x 7". Image size: 9.25" x 5". In excellent condition.This etching was published by Gazette des Beaux-Arts. The Gazette des Beaux-Arts was a French art review, found in 1859 by Édouard Houssaye, with Charles Blanc as its first chief editor. Assia Visson Rubinstein was chief editor under the direction of George Wildenstein from 1928 until 1960. Her papers, which include all editions of the Gazette from this period, are intact at the Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne in Dorigny. The Gazette was a world reference work on art history for nearly 100 years – one other editor in chief, from 1955 to 1987, was Jean Adhémar. It was bought in 1928 by the Wildenstein family, whose last representative was Daniel Wildenstein, its director from 1963 until his death in 2001. The review closed in 2002.Frank Armington (1876–1941) was a Canadian-born and raised artist who lived most of his adult life in France. Frank Armington was born in Fordwich, Ontario on July 28, 1876. Armington studied art in Ontario from 1892 until 1899. He also met his future wife, Caroline Wilkinson, during these studies. In 1899, Armington made his first visit to Paris. While in Paris he married Caroline Wilkinson and continued to study art, this time at the Académie Julian. Armington and his wife moved back to Canada in 1900, where Armington became a founding member and vice president of the Manitoba Society of Artists. Armington returned to Paris and lived there from 1905 until 1939. Toward the end of his life, he and his wife moved to New York City. Caroline died soon after the move, however, and Armington remarried in 1940. Armington died in New York City in 1941. Throughout his career, Armington worked in a number of mediums including etching 221 prints and a number of lithographs.Read Lessnort. Please check out Lot #’s 0482 & 0483 The Callcott and the Shayer original art, These are important original antique paintings .
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