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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.

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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Henri Riviere - Trente Six Vues de la Tour Eiffel - Frontispice - plate 1 Sold
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Frontispice

RIVIERE, Henri

Lithograph printed in four tones on thick wove paper, 1888-1902. Reference: Fields page 77-78. Plate 1 from the series titled Les Trente-Six Vues d...

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The Bridge Sold
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The Bridge

BONNARD, Pierre

Le Pont (original French title) Color lithograph printed on thin wove paper, 1899. Reference: Bouvet 66. Edition of 100.From the artist’s famous se...

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Noël 1924
$470

Noël 1924

AURIOL, George

Color lithograph on thin wove paper. Reference: Fields 378. New Year's which the Auriol household did for about two decades. This one a color trial...

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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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In the Stairwell
$1,300

In the Stairwell

HERMANN-PAUL, Rene G.

Femme Descendant un Escalier or Dans l'Escalier (original French title) Color lithograph on tan wove paper. References: BN-IFF 83-2. Likely from an...

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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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Alexandre CHARPENTIER - Wemeldingen - Petite fille - Embossed color lithograph - 1896 - detail
$1,400

Wemeldingen

CHARPENTIER, Alexandre

Petite fille (alternate title) Embossed color lithograph on wove paper. Reference: not in BN-IFF. This is a plate for a set of 6 embossed color lit...

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Jake Muirhead - The Return - Etching and aquatint in red ink - 2011 - detail
$185

The Return

MUIRHEAD, Jake

Etching and aquatint in red ink on wove paper.Pencil signed, titled and inscribed A/P.Sheet size: 15 x 19 inches.

After Georges BRAQUE - L’Oiseau et Son Nid - Color lithograph - 1956 - detail
$2,750

L’Oiseau et Son Nid

BRAQUE, Georges (After)

Color lithograph on BFK Rives wove paper.References: Maeght 1024; related to Vallier 101 ("Le Nid", etching and drypoint from 1955). This lithograp...

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Georges de FEURE - Femme Fleur - Flower Woman - Color lithograph - 1895 - detail
$1,200

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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