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Odilon Redon
Lot 8

Odilon Redon

L'Aile

Closed16 September 2015

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GBP 10,000

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Odilon Redon
L'Aile
lithograph, 1893, on chine appliqué paper on a wove paper support, a fine impression from the edition of 25, printed by Becquet, Paris, with wide margins, trimmed at right, very pale discoloration at the upper and left sheet edges, otherwise in good condition

L. 319 x 245 mm., S. 569 x 412 mm.

André Marie Louis Mellerio (1862-1943), Paris (cf. L. 153a) (re-inforced).

Specialist note

Although the imprint indicates an edition of fifty, Mellerio notes an edition of 25 impressions only.

`These drawings passed all bounds, transgressing in a thousand ways the established laws of pictorial art, utterly fantastic and revolutionary, the work of a mad and morbid genius’.(A description of Odilon Redon’s lithographs, in: Joris-Karl Huysman, A Rebours, 1884).