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1898

Georges Alfred Bottini

(French, 1874–1907)
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Culture
France, 19th century
Medium
color separation proof in red
Support
Cream (3) wove paper
Measurements
Sheet: 37.8 x 27.9 cm (14 7/8 x 11 in.); Image: 21 x 18.5 cm (8 1/4 x 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 1998.42.4
Catalogue raisonné
Southard 27
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print

Description

During the 1890s, there was a revived interest in color lithography in Paris. Originally considered a commercial art form, the medium was taken up by a growing number of printmakers as a means of formal experimentation. This print by Georges Bottini shows the shop of Edmond Sagot, a leading dealer of color lithographs during the late 19th and early 20th century. A crowd of fashionably dressed young women gather before the windows of Sagot's shop, suggesting the growing status of color lithography at this time.
A vertically oriented print features grainy, stippled red ink on cream paper, defining silhouettes through unprinted negative space. To our right, a figure in a floor-length gown stands with a hand on their hip. Overlapping figures fill the foreground to our left. Three rectangular forms in the upper background suggest framed art. The speckled red texture creates a hazy, diffused atmosphere across the composition.

Sagot's Gallery

1898

Georges Alfred Bottini

(French, 1874–1907)
France, 19th century

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