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CLAUDE MONET and GEORGE W. THORNLEY Les Falaise dans la mer.
Lithograph printed in bluish green on Chine appliqué on cream wove paper, circa 1892. 186x264 mm; 7 3/8x10 1/2 inches, full margins. Edition of 25. Signed by both Monet and Thornley and titled in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Belfond, Paris, with the blind stamp (Lugt 225d, lower right). A very good, well-inked impression of this extremely scarce lithograph.
At the end of the 19th century, Monet (1840-1926), Edgar Degas (1834-1917) and Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) rediscovered lithography as a medium both to recreate their artistic conceptions on paper and simultaneously achieve widespread distribution of and acclamation for their work. These artists, who had invented new ways of transmitting impressions of light and color, engaged George William Thornley (1857-1935), an accomplished English lithographer and admirer of the Impressionists, to translate their designs into lithographs. The prints that emerged from these collaborative efforts are the only lithographs in color, save one by Pissarro, by these great Impressionist artists.
