Le Polype difforme flottait sur les rivages, sorte de cyclope souriant et hideux (The deformed polyp floated on the shores, a sort of smiling and hideous Cyclops)

1883

Odilon Redon

Artist, French, 1840 - 1916

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph on chine appliqué on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image (chine appliqué): 21.4 × 20 cm (8 7/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 54.7 × 36 cm (21 9/16 × 14 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1951.10.460

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mellerio 1913, no. 47

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1963

  • Modern Prints and Illustrated Books from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1963, no cat.

1965

  • Drolleries and Demons: Six Centuries of "Fantastic" Prints; Selections from The National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection, IBM Gallery, New York, NY, 1965, no. 48.

1967

  • Mask and Eye: the graphic work of James Ensor and Odilon Redon, Brandeis University, Dreitzer Gallery, Waltham, MA, 1967, no. 28.

1968

  • Cosmpolitan Club, Philadelphia, PA, 1968.

Bibliography

1913

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

Inscriptions

recto: in stone, at lower right: ODILON REDON; printed below image at left: Odilon Redon del et lith; printed below image at right: Imp. Lemercier & Cie. Paris; at bottom left in graphite in later hand: A. M. 47; verso: none

Markings

recto: none; verso: National Gallery of Art

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65363002

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