VTG Paris Etching Society Print End Of and 50 similar items

Vintage Original Etching or Aquatint. The artist is Rene Barnaix. The title is "End of Village" or "La Fin Du Hamean" Paris Etching Society N.Y- USA Print "End of Village" This is an original, etching belonging to the Paris Etching Society series. measures approx. 31.5" wide x 27.5"tall. Print is stuck on a board Found at an estate sale Everything is in very good aged condition. (See photos for full condition.) The SZL is a symbol for Sydney Z. Lucas, who commissioned etchings by French artists. It is a limited edition. (no frame).Beginning in the 1920s and lasting until the 1960s, Sidney Lucas owed The Old Print Center in New York. He formed the Paris Etching Society, where he traveled to Europe and commissioned prints by primarily French and Flemish artists. These were all original, hand-colored aquatints or etchings and they were usually signed, and sometimes titled, in pencil by the artists. These prints can be identified either by a ?Paris Etching Society? imprint or the initials ?SZL? inside a circle. This etching has all these marks.