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In Living Color vivid post impressionist works highlight Bonhams’ October prints auction

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Bonhams announces its sale of Fine Prints, October 25, 2011 in San Francisco, and simulcast to Los Angeles, will feature a wide range of lithographs, woodcuts, etchings and screenprints spanning myriad centuries. The sale is led by a brightly-colored lithograph of “Ambassadeurs, Aristide Bruant,” 1892, by French Post Impressionist artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (est. $30,000-40,000). The piece depicts Parisian singer and restaurateur Aristide Bruant, and demonstrates the unique style that Toulouse-Lautrec introduced to the art world at the time. Also of the same period is a poster of Fernand Toussaint’s “Cafe Jacqmotte,” 1894 (est. $20,000-40,000). Not far prior to the creation of these works, James Abbott McNeill Whistler created “Little Venice, from