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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
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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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Louis Rhead - Salon des Cents - Women painter with palette - deluxe edition with signature Sold
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Salon of the 100

RHEAD, Louis

Salon Des Cents (original French title) Color lithograph, poster, printed on japon paper.Reference: Van Deputte 37.One of 25 impressions before let...

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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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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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David Sold
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David

SUMNER, Heywood

Color lithograph on smooth wove paper. Published in The Studio, London.With a pencil signature, unlikely to be by the artist.    

Georges de FEURE - Femme Fleur - Flower Woman - Color lithograph - 1895 - detail
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Flower Woman

DE FEURE, Georges

Femme Fleur (French title) Color lithograph on thin, smooth, tan wove paper, circa 1895.No known edition. We have yet to find another impression of...

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