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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La Vitrine de Sagot or Adresse Sagot (original French titles) The Sagot Address or Sagot’s Lithography Gallery (alternate English titles) Color lit...
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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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Lithograph printed in 12 colors on smooth wove paper.Reference: Field pg 77.Plate 5 from the series of 8 lithographs titled Paysages Parisiens.Prin...
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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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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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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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Color lithograph printed on thin wove paper. References: Bouvet 69, Johnson 10-11.Edition of 100.From the artist’s famous series Quelques Aspects d...
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Quelques Aspects de la vie de Paris (original French title) Color lithograph on wove chine paper. References: Bouvet 58, Johnson 10.Cover for the a...
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Le Pont (original French title) Color lithograph printed on thin wove paper, 1899. Reference: Bouvet 66. Edition of 100.From the artist’s famous se...
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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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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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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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Color lithograph on BFK Rives wove paper.References: Maeght 1024; related to Vallier 101 ("Le Nid", etching and drypoint from 1955). This lithograp...
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