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Rodolphe Bresdin , artist
French, 1822 - 1885
La Comedie de la Mort, 1854
lithograph
21.8 x 15 cm (image)
Gift of Mrs. Edgar Sinton, Hillsborough, California 1958.136.2

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Artist Biography: Highly imaginative romantic artist. Bresdin spent the majority of his life in obscurity and poverty. His work is limited to drawings, lithographs, and etchings. In 1871 Bresdin won a competition for a banknote design in Canada and emigrated there with his family. His hopes for a new life in the forests of the New World were not realized, and, penniless through bad investments, he returned to France in 1876 through the intervention of Victor Hugo. The artist Odilon Redon was a pupil of Bresdin and was greatly influenced by him. Bresdin received little recognition during his life-time. His works have been better understood and appreciated in the twentieth century for their highly personal romanticism and proto-surrealist tendencies.