id: 160665 accession number: 1998.42 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.42 updated: 2022-05-25 09:01:02.073000 Sagot's Gallery, 1898. Georges Alfred Bottini (French, 1874-1907). Color separation proofs in various colors ; sheet: 37.7 x 28.1 cm (14 13/16 x 11 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1998.42 title: Sagot's Gallery title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1898 creation date earliest: 1898 creation date latest: 1898 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: color separation proofs in various colors department: Prints collection: PR - Apparatus type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Georges Alfred Bottini (French, 1874-1907) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 37.7 x 28.1 cm (14 13/16 x 11 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Edmond D. Sagot's great grandson date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital 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 1800s and early 1900s. 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. wall description: The last decades of the 19th century was the golden era of French color lithography. Jules Cheret (1836–1932) popularized the technique to make colorful posters which, by 1884, were also exhibited as a legitimate art form. In 1891 Cheret began to design posters without lettering to frame and hang on walls—still an unusual idea since prints were usually stored in portfolios. The explosion in color lithography was also encouraged by the use of zinc plates, which were lighter, cheaper, and more pliable than traditional lithographic stones. Also important was the formation of artist's organizations like the Société des artistes lithographie (Society of Lithographic Artists) and the Société de l'estampe originale (Society of Original Prints), which stimulated original printmaking. By the 1890s a proliferation of fine printers, independent exhibitions, publications devoted to prints, critics, publishers, and dealers like Sagot, all supported color lithography. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Chapin, Mary Weaver. “Intimism and the ‘Daily Tragedy and Mystery of Ordinary Existence.’” In Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900. Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemonedes Brown, 20-39. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 27-28, fig. 29 (Only 1998.42.5) url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1998.42/1998.42_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1998.42/1998.42_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1998.42/1998.42_full.tif