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Odilon Redon, printmaker

Un Masque Sonne le Glas Funèbre (A Mask sounds the funeral knell), 1882

Description

Maker

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

Title

Un Masque Sonne le Glas Funèbre (A Mask sounds the funeral knell)

Year

1882

Medium

lithograph on chine-collé

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • lithograph

Supports

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

Dimensions

27.8 x 19.4 cm (10 7/8 x 7 5/8 inches) (plate) including inscriptions

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Lettered: LL: "Odilon Redon"; LC: "Imp. Lemercier & C.ie r. de Seine 57."; and "Un masque sonne le GLAS FUNEBRE."

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

50.372.3

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