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ODILON REDON (1840-1916)
Cime Noir ('Black Summit')
lithograph
1887
on Chine appliqué on cream wove paper
signed in pencil
dedicated and initialled in brown ink à Jules Destrée/ affectueux souvenir/ oD.R.
presumably a proof aside from the unsigned edition of four hundred on this paper (there were also one hundred on Japan paper)
printed by Lemercier, Paris, and published in the Revue Independente, April 1887, no. 6
some pale foxing
otherwise in good condition
Image 16,6 x 9,1 cm. (612 x 358 in.)
Sheet 32,1 x 24 cm. (1258 x 912 in.)
Provenance
Jules Destrée (1863-1936), Brussels; a gift from the artist; then presumably by descent.Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, 15 June 1968, lot 907.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
A. Mellerio, Odilon Redon, Paris, 1913 [reprint New York 1968], no. 69, p. 99 (another impression illustrated).
Exhibited
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Traumwandler – Odilon Redon und Rodolphe Bresdin, February – June 2003 (no cat.).
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Jules Destrée (1863-1936) was a Walloon lawyer, politician and cultural critic, who was instrumental in the creation of the federal political system in Belgium, and for a short period served as minister of culture and science.

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