This is a fine art lithograph. It’s an original work of fine art which was produced at the prestigious S2 Atelier in New York City in 1997. It was inspired by a poster first created in 1899.These fine art lithographs are recreations of the original. Great care was taken to precisely re-create the artists original image. Most of the chromists hand draw directly onto specially prepared surfaces that are then transferred onto lithographic plates. Lithography involves creating hand drawn plates, one for each color, which are then ‘pulled’ through antique printing presses one color at a time. The resulting lithograph is in pure color, as opposed to the dot structure which occurs in the photographic process of modern printing. At the heart of the S2 Atelier are it’s two rare, French made Marinoni Voirin ‘editioning’ printing presses ‘ they both date back to the mid 19th century. These are the best fine art lithographs made in the industry today. You cannot find anything better than these. Henri Privat Livemont was born in Schaerbeek, Brussels, 1861. He began his studies at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs at Saint-Josse-ten-Noodle and, in 1883, he won a scholarship to study in Paris, where he remained for six years. In 1890 he created what would become the first of thirty posters which he would design by the year 1900.It had been insinuated that Privat Livemont was a continuator, or rather an imitator of Alphonse Mucha. This concept has been dispelled however, and Livemont is viewed as an artist ever seeking original ideas, a lover of his art, and so sure of his own powers that he can rely on himself for inspiration.Livemont was a virtuoso poster lithographer, always drawing the image on the stone himself. Women were almost his sole subject, and he created a type to which he remained faithful: with heavy eyelids and straight lashes, heart-shaped mouth, long tresses strewn with soft flowers or restrained by a startling hair ornament, rich gowns with diaphanous sleeves, slender fingernails — nails filed to a point — beautifully advertising a product.