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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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Anxiousness Sold
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Anxiousness

GRASSET, Eugene

Anxiété (original descriptive title) Color lithograph printed on smooth wove paper.As published by Art et Décoration.  From what was certainly a si...

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Coldness Sold
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Coldness

GRASSET, Eugene

Froideur (original descriptive title) Color lithograph printed on smooth wove paper, circa 1897.As published by Art et Décoration.  From what was c...

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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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Henri Riviere - La Feerie des Heures - L'Averse - The Shower - detail Sold
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The Shower

RIVIERE, Henri

L’Averse (original French title) Lithograph printed in color on smooth wove paper, 1902.Reference: Fields page 77.Plate 7 from the series titled La...

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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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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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Charles Marie Dulac - Cantique des Creatures - Stella Matutina - plate 3 - detail Sold
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Morning Star

DULAC, Charles

Stella Matutina (original Latin title) Lithograph printed in two tones on chine collé on wove paper.Reference: BN-IFF 2.Plate 3 for the set of 9 co...

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Charles Marie Dulac - Paysages - plate 5 - epis de bles - early proof sanguine - detail Sold
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Paysage no. 5

DULAC, Charles

Lithograph printed in light gray and sepia on wove paper.Plate 5 with the "Wheat Head" remarque, from the series of 8 prints for the portfolio titl...

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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 Crepuscule - Dusk - detail
$950

Dusk

RIVIERE, Henri

Le Crépuscule (original French title) Lithograph printed in color on wove paper, 1901-02.Ref: Levasseur & Le Bohec lith. 73.From the series of ...

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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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