Word: lithographic
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...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...
Hello, Dolly! does occasionally get bogged in a plot hole, and the score fills a function more often than it casts a spell. But with Oliver Smith's evocative lithograph-like settings and Freddy Wittop's costumes, which gleam like spring tulips against the backdrop of brownstones, there is no handsomer way to visit Little Old New York...
...Seventy newly acquired prints, including a red-chalk drawing, Prudence, by the Dutch master engraver Goltzius; Rembrandt's masterly etching, Landscape with a Man Sketching (circa 1645); a rare Goya lithograph, Men Spitting at a Fire, showing the Spaniard's early use of the medium...