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Odilon Redon, printmaker

A Edgar Poe (Portfolio Cover), 1882

Description

Maker

  • Odilon Redon, 1840-1916, French, printmaker
  • Lemercier, printer
  • G. Fischbacher, publisher

Title

A Edgar Poe (Portfolio Cover)

Year

1882

Dimensions

Sheet: 45.8 x 32.4 cm (18 1/16 x 12 3/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Lettered: "A Edgar Poe 6 Lithographies / Odilon Redon Paris G. Fischbacher Editeur 33 Rue de Seine 33."

Inscribed UR in graphite: "Odilon Redon"

Portfolio cover stamped with the collector's mark of André Marie Louis Mellerio (1862-1942; Lugt 153a)

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Murray S. Danforth, Jr.

Object Number

50.372

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

From Bastille to Beaubourg

July 7 - August 26, 1989

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Devant Le Noir Soleil de la Mélancolie, Lénore Apparait (Before the Black Sun of Melancholy, Lenore Appears), 1882
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Un Masque Sonne le Glas Funèbre (A Mask sounds the funeral knell), 1882
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A l' Horizon, l' Ange des Certitudes, et Dans le Ciel Sombre un Regard Interrogateur (On the Horizon, the Angel of Certitudes, and in the Dark Sky, A Questioning Glance), 1882
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Le Souffle Qui Conduit Les Etres Est Aussi Dans les Sphères (The Breath that leads Living Creatures is also in the Spheres), 1882
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La Folie (Madness), 1882

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