ODILON REDON (1840-1916)
Vieux Chevalier, from L'Album des Peintres-Graveurs
lithograph, on Chine appliqué to wove paper, 1896, initialed in pencil, a proof before the addition of text (the edition was 100), published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris, with full margins, in good condition
Image: 11³⁄₄ x 9¹⁄₄ in. (299 x 235 mm.)
‌Sheet: 22¹⁄₂ x 17 in. (572 x 432 mm.)

Henri M. Petiet, Paris.

Mellerio 158

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This lithograph was commissioned and published by Vollard in his first L'Album des Peintres-Graveurs in July 1896. The stalwart knight of the Vieux Chevalier is a romantic and idealized vision of a lone seeker of light and truth. The medieval references and spiritual aura are in keeping with Redon's preoccupations in the 1890s. Vollard also commissioned a color lithograph for the second Album and published two sets of black and white lithographs by the artist, a Tentation de Saint-Antoine and an Apocalypse, in 1896 and 1899 respectively.