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Odilon Redon

L'oeil, comme un ballon bizarre se dirige vers l'infini (The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Moves Toward Infinity)

Maker

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

Title

L'oeil, comme un ballon bizarre se dirige vers l'infini (The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Moves Toward Infinity)
A Edgar Poe

Year

1882

Medium

  • lithograph on chine-collé

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • lithograph on chine-collé

Materials

lithograph

Supports

  • Light weight cream Oriental tissue paper laid down on heavy weight white wove paper (chine collé)

Dimensions

Plate 27.9 x 19.7 cm (11 x 7 3/4 inches) including inscriptions

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Lettered: UR: "Odilon Redon"; LC: "Imp. Lemercier & C.ie r. de Seine 57."; and "L'Oeil, comme un ballon bizarre se dirige vers l'infini"

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

Verso: stamped with the collector's mark of Emile Laffon (1868-1931; Lugt 877a)

Identification

Standard Reference Number

Mellerio no. 38

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Murray S. Danforth, Jr.

Object Number

50.372.1

Type

  • Prints

Exhibition History

Carl Ostendarp
Pulled Up
Feb 13, 2009 – Aug 23, 2009
Re-Viewing the Twentieth Century
Jul 21, 2006 – Apr 22, 2007
The Landscape Tradition in Printmaking
Jan 19, 1990 – Apr 22, 1990

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Tombstone

Odilon Redon (French, 1840-1916), printmaker
Lemercier, printer
G. Fischbacher, publisher
L'oeil, comme un ballon bizarre se dirige vers l'infini (The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Moves Toward Infinity); A Edgar Poe, 1882
Lithograph on chine-collé
Plate 27.9 x 19.7 cm (11 x 7 3/4 inches) including inscriptions
Gift of Murray S. Danforth, Jr. 50.372.1

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