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Couverture-Frontispice
1888
Odilon Redon (Artist) French, 1840-1916 Imprimerie de Becquet (Printer) Deman (Publisher) Belgian
Lithograph printed in black ink on blue-gray wove paper
Image: 7 7/8 × 5 1/2 inches (20 × 14 cm) Sheet: 17 3/4 × 12 1/4 inches (45.1 × 31.1 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund
66.69
Copyright Not Evaluated
Markings
Signed, on stone, lower center of image: [artist's monogram]
Inscribed, on stone, as part of image: TENTATION | DE | SAINT-ANTOINE | TEXTE DE GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Inscribed, in letterpress, upper left corner: Odilon Redon. Inscribed, lower right corner: 1888
Printed, on verso of sheet: [second image of two hands holding a sceptre]
Provenance
1966-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Odilon Redon, Couverture-Frontispice, 1888, lithograph printed in black ink on blue-gray wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund, 66.69.
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