This work is engraved with a drypoint, a tool that allows the spontaneity and speed of the gesture to translate this autumn rain in Paris. To evoke the violence of the rain on trees and passers-by, Armington has multiplied the oblique strokes. Elsewhere, the furrows cross to create reflections of water runoff on the pavement. He digs the board in depth to give life and shape to the silhouettes of the Parisians sheltered under their umbrellas Engraved in 1924 and acquired by the Chalcographie on 25 February 1921, this work echoes paintings on the same theme dating from 1920. Frank Armington is
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