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ODILON REDON (1840-1916)
Hantise ('Haunting')
lithograph
1894
on Chine appliqué paper
unsigned (as issued)
a fine impression from the declared edition of fifty, published by Monrocq, Paris
with wide margins, probably the full sheet
some stains and minor creases in the margins
otherwise in good condition
Image 36,1 x 22,8 cm. (1414 x 9 in.)
Sheet 55,6 x 39,8 cm. (2178 x 1558 in.)
Provenance
Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, 11-13 June 1975, lot 841.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
A. Mellerio, Odilon Redon, New York, 1968, no. 128, p. 112 (another impression ill.).
Exhibited
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Verhext – Phantastische Graphik aus der Sammlung Hegewisch, November 1997 – March 1998 (no cat.).
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, no. 69 (ill.), pp. 55, 90.
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Lot Essay

In his catalogue raisonné Mellerio mentions the inscription at upper right ('Hantise 50 épr.') yet records an edition size of 25 impressions only. Perhaps he had seen documents indicating that in the event only half of the planned edition was printed.

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