Edouard Manet, French, (1832-1883), GUERRE CIVILE (CIVIL WAR) Chromolithograph image 8 x 5-1/2

image 8 x 5-1/2

toned within mat opening

toned within old mat opening with a few tiny spots of foxing

today we realize this signals a potent early example of James Meikle Guy’s unique synthesis of the Surreal and Social Realist styles which would define his contributions to American Modernism

and the first print in color I have encountered by Lillie

Edouard Manet, French, (1832-1883), GUERRE CIVILE (CIVIL WAR) Chromolithograph image 8 x 5-1/2Lithograph on chine colle, 1871 73. The second state of two. Printed and Published by Lermercier, Paris, 1874. 15 5 8 x 20 inches, 397 x 508 mm. (image), 19 1 8 x 24 3 4 inches, 486 x 629 mm. (sheet). In very good condition, with some loss to the lettering of the title, light foxing, mostly to the mount, a few repaired tears to the full margins and a faint mat line around the image. During the Franco Prussian War in 1870 71, Paris was defended by the