Parsifal / Druidess: unfolding a lithographic metamorphosis by Odilon Redon.

From: The Art Bulletin | Date: December 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

In 1879, with an album of ten prints and one frontispiece entitled Dans le reve ("In the Dream" or "Dreaming"), Odilon Redon started publishing lithographs. The album format proved congenial and successful: three more followed until, in 1886, the artist began issuing individual sheets with Profile of Light (Fig. 18). In April 1891, a first catalog of Redon's lithographs was published by the Belgian lawyer, writer, and critic Jules Destree. He made a clear distinction between the isolated plates, which he introduced under the generic title Pieces modernes but regarded as "not ...

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