Il y eut peut-etre une vision premiere essayee dans la fleur (There was perhaps a first vision attempted in the flower)

1883

Odilon Redon

Associated Names
Odilon Redon

Artist, French, 1840 - 1916

This print displays intricate lines and stippling surrounding the shape of a large eye above center. Below this, there are lines forming a beak-like shape. The appearance is similar to a bird's head that has been rotated to the side, although the shapes are abstracted. The shapes could also suggest a strange, curved plant with a thick stem. Around the eye are two layers of thin feathered lines similar to eyelashes or fur.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1951.10.459

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mellerio 1913, no. 46

  • Series Title

    Les Origines [Mellerio 44-53]

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1953

  • Nineteenth-Century Prints by French Painter-Printmakers from the Rosenwald Collection, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1953.

1965

  • Dedicatory Art Exhibition for the William Cooper Procter Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 1965, no. 33.

  • Drolleries and Demons: Six Centuries of 'Fantastic' Prints, IBM Gallery, New York, NY, 1965, no. 50 (as "Vision"), repro.

1967

  • Mask and Eye: the graphic work of James Ensor and Odilon Redon, Brandeis University, Dreitzer Gallery, Waltham, MA, 1967, no. 27.

1972

  • Lithography in the 19th Century: Selections from the National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1972-1973, no. 29, repro.

Bibliography

1913

  • Mellerio, Andre. Odilon Redon. Paris: Societe pour l'Etude de la Gravure Francais, 1913. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1968.

Wikidata ID

Q65363000

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