Word: lithographic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...honor of Washington's Birthday Grogan had Peter the bartender put bunting up over the windows. Peter, on his own initiative, dusted off the colored lithograph that hangs over the bar and also dusted off the photograph of old John McNulty that hangs beside Kennedy's picture. McNulty, who had gone to the Boston Latin School, was quite a man. Big, gruff, and hearty, he was quite a wit and was responsible for the sign over the barroom door. He died last year...
Besides boasting Europe's most outstanding fleshpot, the Reeperbahn, with its banks of bordellos, the good city of Hamburg has a stern ordinance against picturing nudes on public posters. So it was only natural that when the manager of the Hamburger Aussenwerbung ad agency saw that scabrous lithograph, Painter and His Model, by Marc Chagall, he flatly refused to handle it as a poster for the Chagall exhibition at the Kunsthaus Center. Unless Kunsthaus Director Eylert Spars would let him paste a paper ribbon across the model's breasts. Spars sighed, and instead of posting his 800 posters...
...prints since his appointment as a Fogg curator in 1939. All of the works in the show? two-thirds of which were acquired over the years by Rosenberg? have increased tenfold in value. A Kirchner woodcut bought in 1945 for $90 is now worth $2,000. Klee's 1923 lithograph, Tight rope Walker, cost him $40, and now would command 15 times the price...
Rosenberg's parting selection originates from Norway to Mexico, from 1899 to 1962. From the looks of it, the revolution is not over. Pop art's precursor, Robert Rauschenberg, found a way to reproduce and overlap news photographs of lifeboat survivors and crowd scenes in his blue 1962 lithograph, Stunt Man I. Each of an edition of 37 now costs upwards of $200, if one can be found. Though no longer so cheap, graphics are still finer for many than are oils. There may be no end to Saint Jakob's ladder...
French Milquetoast. Bonnard was headed halfheartedly for the law when, in 1890, he made a 100-france sale of a lithograph poster for a champagne merchant. Flat, clearly influenced by the vogue for Japanese prints, it showed a giddy damsel in bubbly billows. Its appearance on the kiosks of Paris caused Toulouse-Lautrec to seek Bonnard out; it was not until a year later that the sawed-off chronicler of Montmartre made his own first poster. The sale also persuaded Bonnard's father, a war ministry bureaucrat, to let his son pursue art as a career...