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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.

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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Alexandre Lunois - Buveuse d'Absinthe - Ansinthe Drinker - color lithograph - addiction Sold
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Absinthe Drinker

LUNOIS, Alexandre

Buveuse d’Absinthe (original French title) Color lithograph printed on white wove paper, 1894.Reference: BN-IFF 61.Edition unknown, but certainly s...

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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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Pierre Bonnard - Lire dans Le Figaro le nouveau roman d'Abel Hermant - detail Sold
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Read in the Figaro

BONNARD, Pierre

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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Noël 1924
$470

Noël 1924

AURIOL, George

Color lithograph on thin wove paper. Reference: Fields 378. New Year's which the Auriol household did for about two decades. This one a color trial...

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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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In the Stairwell
$1,300

In the Stairwell

HERMANN-PAUL, Rene G.

Femme Descendant un Escalier or Dans l'Escalier (original French title) Color lithograph on tan wove paper. References: BN-IFF 83-2. Likely from an...

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Alexandre CHARPENTIER - Wemeldingen - Petite fille - Embossed color lithograph - 1896 - detail
$1,400

Wemeldingen

CHARPENTIER, Alexandre

Petite fille (alternate title) Embossed color lithograph on wove paper. Reference: not in BN-IFF. This is a plate for a set of 6 embossed color lit...

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