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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.

Paul Signac - Bateaux a Flessingue - seascape - lithograph Sold
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Boats in Vlissingen

SIGNAC, Paul

 Bateaux à Flessingue  (original French title) Color lithograph on thin wove paper. Ref: Kornfeld et Wick 12 IV.  Fourth and final state, after t...

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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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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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Alexandre Lunois - Buveuse d'Absinthe - Ansinthe Drinker - color lithograph - addiction Sold
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Absinthe Drinker

LUNOIS, Alexandre

Buveuse d’Absinthe (original French title) Color lithograph printed on white wove paper, 1894.Reference: BN-IFF 61.Edition unknown, but certainly s...

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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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Maximilien Luce - Saint-Tropez - color lithograph - Gustave Pellet - 1897 - detail
$2,800

Saint-Tropez

LUCE, Maximilien

Color lithograph on chine-collé on thick wove paper.Ref: Bibliothèque Nationale - Inventaire du Fonds Français 30.Total edition of 60, of which 20 ...

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Henri Riviere - La Feerie des Heures - La Tempete - The Storm - detail Sold
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The Storm

RIVIERE, Henri

La Tempête (original French title) Lithograph printed in color on smooth wove paper.Reference: Fields page 77.Plate 10 from the series of 16 lithog...

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