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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.

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The Café

LEGER, Fernand

Le Café (original French title) Color lithograph printed on Arches wove paper.Reference: Sapphire, pp 238-239 & 286-87.Plate 15, of the 29 comp...

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Henri Riviere - Paysages Parisiens - Quai d'Austerlitz - detail
$1,500

Quai d’Austerlitz

RIVIERE, Henri

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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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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Henri Meunier - Cartes Postales Artistiques - Editions Dietrich Bruxelles - Original Art Deco Poster - detail
$2,400

Artistic Postcards

MEUNIER, Henri

Cartes Postales Artistiques (original French title) Color lithograph, poster, printed on thin wove paper, linen-backed, 1898. Published by "Dietric...

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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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