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Little Girl Hugging her Doll, pencil drawing on paper on artist board, under glass, affixed at corners. Unframed. Signed lower right, Maurin. Paper is watermarked Ingres, upper right. 15 3/4" x 9 1/2". Paper shows some foxing throughout, some staining. Maurin was a graduate of Ecole des Beaux-Artes, Paris and the Academie Julian. He showed widely at salons in the 1880s and 1890s, was closely associated with Edgar Degas, Auguste Renoir, Felix Vallotton, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Maurin is credited with having invented the "spritzethnik", the use of an atomizer to spray pigment onto the paper to create atmospheric watercolor landscapes of "great beauty". He is closely associated with the Parisian avant-garde movement, and with realist and symbolist movements. Maurin's work is held in the collections of the Louvre, Musee d'Orsay, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, and others. Provenance: from the collection of Henry Laurent, a close patron of the artist, Charles Maurin. Henry Laurent acquired over 1,000 works by Maurin at the urging of Edgar Degas who considered Maurin the most important French painter since Ingres. The collection was passed to Henry's son, Charles, and subsequently by descent, to his daughter, Danielle Francis (nee Laurent) of Marion, MA.