Armand Coussens

The Orange Cart

Armand Coussens - "The Orange Cart" is indicative of Coussens's engraved and etched art printed in color. This original color etching and engraving was commissioned and published by the Louvre in Paris in a limited edition of one hundred impressions. It is printed upon thick wove paper and with wide margins as published in Paris around 1920 and Bears the Chalcographie du Louvre blindstamp along the lower margin. This impression is signed in the plate and signed and numbered by the artist in pencil under the lower plate-mark. "The Orange Cart" is a fine, original example of the art created by the French artist, Armand Coussens.

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The Orange Cart

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Title:	The Orange Cart
Artist:	Coussens, Armand (St. Ambroix, France, 1881 - Nimes, 1935)
Date:	c. 1920
Medium:	Origainal Colour Etching & Engraving
Publisher:	The Louvre, Paris
Edition:	Limited edition of one hundred impressions, numbered 13/100.
Note:	Armand Coussens: Landscape, rural types, the life in small provincial cities find in Armand Coussens an enthusiastic interpreter. An old woman with goats, a street vendor of oranges, a hawker resting under a tree, an impression of a harbour or of an open-air market yield exquisite plates of delicate colouring. Coussens' oeuvre numbers now over one hundred plates. Sixteen have been bought by the Chalcographie du Louvre, a sign of high appreciation rarely experienced by a young artist." * (F. L. Leipnik, A History of French Etching from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day, London, John Lane, 1924, pp. 189 & 190).
	A great colour etcher of the early twentieth century, Armand Coussens studied at the Ecole des Beaux-arts in Nimes. Upon graduation he lived and worked in Paris for the following ten years. There both his paintings and etchings were frequently exhibited at major salons such as the Societe des Artistes Francais and at l'hotel Drouot. Coussens then moved back to his studio in Nimes where he continued to create his beautiful colour etchings of landscapes and figure studies. Today examples of his art are included in prominent public collections in New York, London, Tokyo and Paris.
	As a leading French color etcher, Armand Coussens's art was often appreciated for his use of combining the thick, velvety lines of drypoint engraving with the delicate lines of soft-ground etching. Such techniques gave his art unique tonal values, as one can see in this original work. The Orange Cart was commissioned and published by the Louvre in Paris in a signed limited edition of one hundred impressions.
Size:	7 X 9 3/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon thick wove paper and with wide margins as published in Paris around 1920. Bearing the Chalcographie du Louvre blindstamp along the lower margin. Signed in the plate and signed and numbered, '13/100' by the artist in pencil under the lower plate-mark. Containing slight matte burning in the outer margins, else a finely printed full colour impression and in excellent condition throughout. The Orange Cart represents a superb, original example of the art of Armand Coussens.
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