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Closed Eyes

1890

Odilon Redon

(French, 1840–1916)
printer

Becquet

(French)
Culture
France, 19th century
Medium
lithograph on China paper laid on wove paper
Support
China paper; wove paper
Measurements
Image: 31.2 x 24.2 cm (12 5/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1927.306
Catalogue raisonné
Mellerio 107
State
trial proof (before letters)
Edition
edition of 100
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

Despite its androgynous look, this figure has been identified as a portrait of Redon´s wife, Camille Falte.

Description

Odilon Redon explored the image of an androgynous figure with closed eyes in several of his works. He saw the expression as representative of a meditative shift inward and away from the constraints of modern society. By drawing lightly on a lithographic stone, Redon made faint lines that subtly modeled and shaded the head and shoulders while contrasting with the more sketchily drawn, inexplicable landscape in the foreground. Part of the Print Club of Cleveland’s early gift of lithographs by Redon to the museum, this impression is a unique trial proof, printed while the artist was collaborating with master printer Becquet to assess the composition’s progress.
A vertically oriented lithograph in black ink on off-white paper depicts a person with a light skin tone from the shoulders up, rising from behind a low horizon. The figure features long, parted hair, closed eyes, and a closed mouth. Light from the upper right casts soft shadows across the face. In the foreground, textured, jagged forms stretch across the bottom. Signatures appear at the base of the composition.

Closed Eyes

1890

Odilon Redon, Becquet

(French, 1840–1916), (French)
France, 19th century

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