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Odilon Redon, printmaker

L'oeil, comme un ballon bizarre se dirige vers l'infini (The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Moves Toward Infinity), 1882

Description

Maker

  • Odilon Redon, 1840-1916, French, 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)

Year

1882

Medium

Lithograph on chine-collé

Materials/Techniques

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)

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Murray S. Danforth, Jr.

Object Number

50.372.1

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Carl Ostendarp

February 13 - August 23, 2009

The Landscape Tradition in Printmaking

January 19 - April 22, 1990

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