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ODILON REDON (1840-1916)
Four Plates from: Tentation de Saint-Antoine I & III
four lithographs
1888-1896
on Chine appliqué on wove paper
including:
C'est une tête de mort, avec une couronne de roses. Elle domine un torse de femme d'une blancheur nacrée, Plate VI from: Tentation de Saint-Antoine (Première série)
1888
from the edition of sixty (Mellerio records that only 58 were issued)
printed by Becquet, Paris, and published by Deman, Brussels
with the letterpress text below
with wide margins, probably the full sheet
in very good condition;
L'Intelligence fut à moi! Je devins le Buddha; Antoine: Quel est le but de tout cela? Le diable: Il n'y a pas de but!; & La Mort: C'est moi qui te rends sérieuse; Enlaçonsnous; Plates XII, XVIII & XX from: Tentation de Saint-Antoine (Troisième série)
1896
three proof impressions before the letterpress titles and before the edition of fifty
printed by Blanchard, Paris, and published by A. Vollard, Paris
with wide margins, probably the full sheets
some time staining at the sheet edges
generally in good condition

Images 31 x 24,9 cm. (1214 x 934 in.) (and similar)
Sheets 43,9 x 33,3 cm. (1714 x 1318 in.) (and similar)
Provenance
Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, 20-21 June 1973, lot 650 (together with two plates from Dans le Rêve) (M. 89 only).
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
A. Mellerio, Odilon Redon, Paris, 1913 [reprint New York 1968], nos. 89, 145, 151 and 153, pp. 104, 115-117 (other impressions ill.).
Exhibited
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Traumwandler – Odilon Redon und Rodolphe Bresdin, February – June 2003 (no cat.).
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Die Versuchung des heiligen Antonius, January - May 2008 (no cat). (M. 151)
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Auf Stein gezeichnet – Lithographien von Bresdin bis Vuillard, November 2013 - March 2014, no. 68 (ill.), pp. 89-90. (M. 89)
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