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Color Lithographs - Color Lithography

When lithography was invented (circa 1796 by Aloys Senefelder), initial users could scarcely fathom what would come of the technique.  As a matter of fact, for the first few decades of its existence only a handful of artists used it in a truly creative way.  It was mostly used as a means to reproduce accurately.  It took a few decades for lithographs as artistic objects to gain some recognition, and another few for color to become part of that canon.  Initially used for ephemera, such as announcements, color lithography quickly became the technique of commercial poster production.  Fine art color lithography took a little while longer to develop.  The first artists to really use lithography in color to express themselves were Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and René Georges Hermann-Paul, circa 1890.  But just a few years later, the recognition they had fought for was gained, and a plethora of artist all over the Western Hemisphere were practicing this most flexible of artistic printmaking technique.  Here are some of the great examples we have found over the years.

Landscape
$1,200

Landscape

DULAC, Charles

Paysage (original French title) Lithograph printed in four colors on chine-collé on wove paper.Reference: Stein & Karshan 22.Published by L’Est...

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Ambroise Vollard Sold
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Checkers

VUILLARD, Edouard

Partie de Dames (original French title) Color lithograph printed on chine paper, as usual.Reference: Roger-Marx 32.From the only edition of 100.Fro...

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Edouard Vuillard - Sieste - Convalescence - lithograph of older woman in a chair - interior, muted
$4,800

Convalescence

VUILLARD, Edouard

La Sieste or La Convalescence (original French titles)   Lithograph printed in colors on wove paper.References: Roger-Marx 2, Stein & Karshan 9...

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Pierre Bonnard - Avenue du Bois - lithographie en couleurs - Quelques Aspects de la Vie de Paris - detail Sold
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Forest Avenue

BONNARD, Pierre

Avenue du Bois or Avenue Bois de Boulogne (original French titles)Lithograph on thin wove paper.References: Roger-Marx 59; Bouvet 57. Edition of 10...

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Henri Riviere - Paysages Parisiens - Quai d'Austerlitz - detail
$1,500

Quai d’Austerlitz

RIVIERE, Henri

Lithograph printed in 12 colors on smooth wove paper.Reference: Fields page 77.Plate 3 from the series “Payages Parisiens”.Printed & published ...

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Edouard Vuillard - Paysages et Interieurs - La Cuisinière - Douze Lithographies en Couleurs - detail Sold
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The Cook

VUILLARD, Edouard

La Cuisinière (original French title) Color lithograph printed on China paper.From the portfolio Landscapes and Interiors - Paysages et Intérieurs ...

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Theo van Hoytema - Oude Kraai - Old Crow - deluxe edition on chine-colle - detail Sold
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Old Crow

van HOYTEMA, Theo

Oude Kraai (original Dutch title) Color lithograph on chine-collé.Reference: De Groot 155.1.An artist proof, aside from the edition as part of the ...

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The Bridge
$2,800

The Bridge

BONNARD, Pierre

Le Pont (original French title) Color lithograph printed on thin wove paper, 1899.Reference: Bouvet 66. Edition of 100.From the artist’s famous ser...

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