1974 Édouard Vuillard Collotype "La Cuisinière" (The Cook)

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Original collotype print after the earlier Édouard Vuillard lithograph, from the limited edition portfolio "Twenty Four Masterpieces of Graphic Art". … Read more Original collotype print after the earlier Édouard Vuillard 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: 17 x 14 inches; print size: 13-1/2 x 10-1/2 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.

Vuillard, like Bonnard, was capable of endowing homely and everyday scenes with rare beauty and significance. Many consider the original lithograph in color one of his greatest works. His palette is a muted one, the relationship of colors subtle and sophisticated. Patterned surfaces are juxtaposed with uncluttered open areas. The feeling of a three-dimensional interior is created by an incredible deftness of handling. See less