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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

  • Lemercier
  • G. Fischbacher
  • Odilon Redon

Title

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

Medium

lithograph

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • lithograph on chine-collé

Techniques

  • lithograph on chine-collé

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

Type

  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Murray S. Danforth, Jr.

Object Number

50.372.1

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

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)

Mellerio no. 38

Exhibition History

Carl Ostendarp

February 13 - August 23, 2009

The Landscape Tradition in Printmaking

January 19 - April 22, 1990

Odilon Redon

A Edgar Poe (Portfolio Cover)
The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is L'oeil, comme un ballon bizarre se dirige vers l'infini (The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Moves Toward Infinity) with the accession number of 50.372.1. To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.
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