Name: ODILON REDON (1840-1916)
Brand: Four plates from: Dans le Rêve
Price: 3500.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

ODILON REDON (1840-1916)
Four plates from: Dans le Rêve
four lithographs, from the set of ten
1879
including Germination, La Roue, Limbes and Triste Montée (plates 2, 3, 4 & 9)
on Chine appliqué paper
from the edition of 25 printed by Lemercier, Paris
the first two with wide margins, the other two with smaller margins
some foxing or toning of the paper, Limbes with repairs outside the subject
Images 30,5 x 22,4 cm. (12¹⁄₈ x 8³⁄₄ in.) (and smaller)
Sheets 40 x 30 cm. (15³⁄₄ x 11³⁄₄ in.) (and smaller)

Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, 20-21 June 1973, lot 650 (together with C'est une tête de mort..., plate 6 from: La Tentation de Saint Antoine). (M. 30, 35)
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.

A. Mellerio, Odilon Redon, Paris, 1913 [reprint New York, 1968], nos. 28, 29, 30 and 35, pp. 92-93 (other impressions ill.).

Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Verhext – Phantastische Graphik aus der Sammlung Hegewisch, November 1997 – March 1998 (no cat.). (M. 30, M. 35)
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Aus der Werkstatt des Künstlers – Druckgraphik und vorbereitende Zeichnungen der Sammlung Hegewisch, Part I & II: March - October 2000, pp. 31 (ill.), 91-92. (M. 35)
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Traumwandler – Odilon Redon und Rodolphe Bresdin, February – June 2003. (no cat.)
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Auf Stein gezeichnet – Lithographien von Bresdin bis Vuillard, November 2013 - March 2014, nos. 61-63 (ill.), pp. 50-51, 89. (M. 28, 30, 35)

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In addition to the catalogue description:
Plate 2: Germination (M. 28)
- with wide margins, slightly trimmed, the sheet edges a little irregular.
- pale, scattered foxing in the margins.
- a small, unobtrusive adhesive stain with an associated small surface abrasion at the upper right sheet edge.
Image 27 x 19,5 cm. (10⁵⁄₈ x 7⁵⁄₈ in.); Sheet 40 x 30 cm. (15³⁄₄ x 11³⁄₄ in.)
Plate 3: La Roue (M. 29)
- with wide margins, slightly trimmed, the sheet edges a little irregular.
- scattered foxing in the margins.
- a circa 5 mm. tear with associated short crease at the lower sheet edge at centre.
- a short vertical printer's crease at the upper sheet edge at centre right.
Image 23 x 19,7 cm. (8¹⁄₈ x 7³⁄₄ in.); Sheet 40 x 29,7 cm. (15³⁄₄ x 11³⁄₄ in.)
Plate 4: Limbes (M. 30)
- with smaller margins, slightly unevenly trimmed.
- the sheet a little toned and light-stained.
- a circa 20 mm. repaired, vertical tear in the lower margin at centre.
- a circa 30 mm. repaired diagonal tear in the upper margin to the right.
- a made-up paper loss (35 x 22 mm.) at the lower left sheet corner, the tip of the upper right sheet corner also made-up.
- inscribed in pencil recto at the lower sheet edge: Limbes 25 only 10-
Image 30,6 x 22,3 cm. (12¹⁄₈ x 8³⁄₄ in.); Sheet 37,2 x 27,3 cm. (14⁵⁄₈ x 10³⁄₄ in.)
Plate 9: Triste Montée (M. 35)
- with smaller margins, slightly unevenly trimmed.
- the sheet a little toned and light-stained.
- some pale grey mottled staining in the upper right margin, some small spots of grey pigment and other tiny spots in the margins elsewhere.
- inscribed in pencil recto at the lower sheet edge: º M 35 Triste Montée 25 only 10-
All with remains of old hinges at the upper sheet corners, the first two with old hinges also at the lower left sheet corners verso.
The subjects in good condition.
Plates 2, 3 & 4 loose, plate 9 mounted, not framed.

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