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Odilon Redon, artist
French, 1840 - 1916
"Oannes: "Moi, la premiere conscience du chaos, j'ai surgi de l'abime pour durcir la matiere, pour regler les formes" (Oannes: I, the first consciousness of chaos, arose from the abyss to harden matter, to regulate forms), plate XIV, btwn. pgs. 136 and 137, in the book La Tentation de Saint-Antoine (Editions Ambroise Vollard, 1933), 1896
Lithograph on Arches wove paper
Image: 279 x 217 mm (11 x 8 9/16 in.); Sheet: 445 x 335 mm (17 1/2 x 13 3/16 in.)
Gift of the Reva and David Logan Foundation 2000.200.5.13

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publisher, Ambroise Vollard~printer, Auguste Clot

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Artist Biography: Symbolist painter, lithographer, and etcher. An artist of considerable poetic sensitivity and imagination, his work developed along two divergent lines. His prints explore haunting, fantastic, and sometimes macabre themes and foreshadowed the Surrealist and Dadaist movements. His oils and pastels, chiefly still lifes with flowers, won him the admiration of Henri Matisse and other painters as an important colorist.~~Reference: Mellerio, AndrÈ. Odilon Redon. (Paris: SocietÈ pour l'Etude de la Gravure FranÁaise, 1913)~

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