1974 Paul Cézanne Collotype "The Bathers"

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Original collotype print after the earlier Paul Cézanne lithograph, from the limited edition portfolio "Twenty Four Masterpieces of Graphic Art". … Read more Original collotype print after the earlier Paul Cézanne lithograph, from the limited edition portfolio "Twenty Four Masterpieces of Graphic Art". Printed and published by Triton Press, Inc., New York in 1974. Sheet size: 14 x 17 inches; print size: 11 x 13 inches on Brandywine Cover paper. Shown on a black background. Mint condition new old stock from our immaculate copy of "Twenty Four Masterpieces of Graphic Art".

Collotype is a printing process invented in the mid-19th century famous for producing extremely fine detail and rich tonal gradation, using photograph negatives to create printing plates. Widely used for art books, postcards, and fine art reproductions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, today collotype is commercially uncommon, but still practiced by a few master printers. Collotype prints are admired by photographers, printmakers, and collectors for its unmatched subtlety.

Cézanne few examples of his graphic art. "The Bathers" is perhaps his finest achievement. This lithograph is reproduced in its rare black and white state; Cézanne also completed a series of extra stones in which color was introduced. These were issued in a limited series of about 100. In this work Cezanne sought for the same qualities found in his greatest oils - the classic simplification of figures and shapes, the "solidity" of all the objects in his picture, a composition as well ordered as a Greek temple. See less