A Gustave Flaubert - La tentation de Saint Antoine
Odilon Redon (Bordeaux 1840 - Paris 1916)
Lot-No. 214
Proceeds : 900 €
1889, lithograph, 28,5x 23 cm, lo. ri. in the plate sign. Odilon Redon, lo. middle inscr. 'Saint Antoine: à travers ses longs cheveux qui lui couvraient la figure, j'ai cru reconnaître Ammonaria', below sign. again in the print, lo. le. collection stamp dBs (J. H. de Bois, Lugt 733), unframed. - Cat. rais.: Mellerio 95. One copy from an edition of 60. - Prov.: J. H. de Bois, Haarlem. De Bois was one of the first and most important dealers for Redon artworks. He wrote a cat. rais. for Redons's graphic work. - French painter draughtsman a. graphic artist who created a singular a. distinctive oeuvre. R. studied in Paris under J.-L. Gerome since 1958 but soon turned away from his teachers classicist style. He began with painting charcoal drawings with fantastic a. surrealistic subjects which he copied in lithographs since 1879. In 184 he was co-founder of the Société des Artistes Indépendants a. of the Salon des Indépendants. His unique oeuvre dealing with the unconscious, nightmares a. enigmatic motifs sets him apart from the contemporary avantgarde. - Mus.: Paris (Louvre), New York (MoMA), Amsterdam, Den Haag a. others - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit a. others.
Odilon Redon: A Gustave Flaubert - La tentation de Saint Antoine
Odilon Redon (Bordeaux 1840 - Paris 1916)
A Gustave Flaubert - La tentation de Saint Antoine
Lot-No. 214
Proceeds : 900 €
1889, lithograph, 28,5x 23 cm, lo. ri. in the plate sign. Odilon Redon, lo. middle inscr. 'Saint Antoine: à travers ses longs cheveux qui lui couvraient la figure, j'ai cru reconnaître Ammonaria', below sign. again in the print, lo. le. collection stamp dBs (J. H. de Bois, Lugt 733), unframed. - Cat. rais.: Mellerio 95. One copy from an edition of 60. - Prov.: J. H. de Bois, Haarlem. De Bois was one of the first and most important dealers for Redon artworks. He wrote a cat. rais. for Redons's graphic work. - French painter draughtsman a. graphic artist who created a singular a. distinctive oeuvre. R. studied in Paris under J.-L. Gerome since 1958 but soon turned away from his teachers classicist style. He began with painting charcoal drawings with fantastic a. surrealistic subjects which he copied in lithographs since 1879. In 184 he was co-founder of the Société des Artistes Indépendants a. of the Salon des Indépendants. His unique oeuvre dealing with the unconscious, nightmares a. enigmatic motifs sets him apart from the contemporary avantgarde. - Mus.: Paris (Louvre), New York (MoMA), Amsterdam, Den Haag a. others - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit a. others.