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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 - Allegory - Allegorie - color lithograph set published by Ambroise Vollard Sold
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Allegory

DENIS, Maurice

Allégorie (original French title)Color lithograph on thin wove paper.Reference: Cailler 108.First plate from the album titled L’Amour.  Published b...

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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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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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woman resting with hat in her lap - lithograph by Gustave Leheutre
$1,200

Resting

LEHEUTRE, Gustave

Gustave LEHEUTRE (1861-1932) Le Repos (original French title) Lithograph printed in four colors on laid japon paper, 1896.References: Delteil 134; ...

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Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen - Nathalie Madore - book cover - Abel Hermant - pensive woman sitting on a bed - detail
$650

Nathalie Madore

STEINLEN, Theophile Alexandre

Nathalie Madoré (original French title) Color lithograph on smooth wove paper, on a support sheet.Reference: Crauzat 168.The unused and unfolded co...

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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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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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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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