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.
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Femme Nue à la Feuille Bleue (original French title) Coor lithograph printed on Arches laid paper.Edition of 40.Signed and numbered "12/40" in penc...
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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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La Patisserie (original French title) Color lithograph printed on China paper. Reference: Roger-Marx 41. From the portfolio Paysages et Intérieurs...
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Coin de Rue (original French title) Color lithograph printed on thin wove paper.Reference: Bouvet 60. Edition of 100. From the artist’s famous ser...
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Les Deux Belles-Soeurs (original French title) Color lithograph printed on China paper, 1899.References: Roger-Marx 43; Una Johnson 155.From the po...
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Lire dans Le Figaro le nouveau roman d’Abel Hermant - Confession d’un Homme d’aujourd’hui (original French title) Color lithograph, poster, printed...
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La Vitrine de Sagot or Adresse Sagot (original French titles) Also titled The Sagot Address or Sagot’s Lithography Gallery (original French titles...
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Le Petit Trottin (original French title) Lithograph printed in olive-green ink, with pochoir coloring, on wove paper, 1893-1901. Reference: Deltei...
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Jeune Femme Rousse de Profil (original French title) Color lithograph on wove paper.References: BN-IFF 12. Likely from an edition of 20 or 25 impre...
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