Oct 10, 2019 - Sale 2519

Sale 2519 - Lot 479

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
GRASSET, EUGÈNE. Les Mois: Douze Compositions gravées sur bois & imprimées en chromotypographie. 12 chromotypographed plates, one for each month, before type with month only printed, designed for the 1896 calendar of the Parisian department store La Belle Jardinière. Sheets measure 17x241 mm; 12 1/2x9 1/2 inches. Folio, original printed grey wrappers, light wear; plates clean. Paris: G. De Malherbe, 1895 [or 1896]
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In the early 1890s Grasset began experimenting with a new form of printing called chromotypography, an early form of photolithography invented by his friend, Firmin Gillot. This calendar was printed in "Gillotage," a version of chromotypography where the plates are engraved on wood and printed on vellum.