1974 Aristide Maillol Collotype "Nude on Sofa"

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Original collotype print after the earlier Aristide Maillol lithograph, from the limited edition portfolio "Twenty Four Masterpieces of Graphic Art". … Read more Original collotype print after the earlier Aristide Maillol 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: 6-3/4 x 9 inches. Initialed in stone lower left, 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.

Aristide Maillol began his career as a painter but turned soon to sculpture. Like most great sculptors, he was a magnificently endowed draughtsman. Lithography afforded him an opportunity to see his sketches multiplied. Many of his studies became the basis for later terracottas and bronzes. The finest characteristics of his sculptured nudes are present in this classic female figure. See less