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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.

Paul Signac - Bateaux a Flessingue - seascape - lithograph Sold
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Boats in Vlissingen

SIGNAC, Paul

 Bateaux à Flessingue  (original French title) Color lithograph on thin wove paper. Ref: Kornfeld et Wick 12 IV.  Fourth and final state, after t...

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Maurice Denis - Amour - cover - detail Sold
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Cover for "Amour"

DENIS, Maurice

Maurice DENIS (French, 1870-1943): Couverture pour l'Amour, 12 lithographies (original French title) Color lithograph on thin wove chine paper, 189...

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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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Edouard Vuillard - Paysages et Interieurs - A Travers Champs - detail Sold
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Through the Fields

VUILLARD, Edouard

A Travers Champs (original French title) Color lithograph printed on China paper.From the portfolio Landscapes and Interiors - Paysages et Intérieu...

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Marguerite Montaud Gamy - Juvisy – Paris - Lithograph - hand colored - 1909 . Sold
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Juvisy – Paris

MONTAUD GAMY, Marguerite

Lithograph, extensively hand-colored, possibly by pochoir, or freehand.The edition is unknown. With a ghost impression of the title and comment “Ju...

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Edouard Vuillard - Paysages et Interieurs - La Patisserie - detail Sold
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The Pastry Shop

VUILLARD, Edouard

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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Otéro Sold
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Otéro

HERMANN-PAUL, Rene G.

Color lithograph on wove paper, c. 1900. References: BN-IFF 82-2. Likely from an edition of 20 or 25 impression. Extremely scarce. This is only the...

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Maurice BRIANCHON - Sur la Plage - On the Beach - Color lithograph - 1960 - detail Sold
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On the Beach

BRIANCHON, Maurice

Sur la Plage (original French title)  Color lithograph on Rives wove paper. Published by "Société des Peintres-Graveurs Français", with their blind...

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Henri Riviere - La Feerie des Heures - Le Vent - The Wind - windmill laundry - detail Sold
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Wind

RIVIERE, Henri

Le Vent (original French title) Lithograph printed in color on wove paper, 1901.Ref: Levasseur & Le Bohec lith. 69.From the series of 16 lithog...

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