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The Temptation of Saint Anthony (First Series)
1888
(French, 1840–1916)
printer
(French)
publisher
Image: 19.8 x 14 cm (7 13/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1927.477
Catalogue raisonné: Mellerio 83-93
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Publisher Edmond Deman commissioned this portfolio after he saw an 1886 exhibition of Redon's work in Brussels, Belgium.Description
This portfolio is one of three made by Odilon Redon inspired by avant-garde writer Gustave Flaubert’s novel The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874). Captivated by the book’s fantastical account of moralizing tests encountered by a hermit in the desert, Redon executed charcoal drawings and attempted to evoke that medium’s dense blackness in his lithographs. Based on the text’s darkly imaginative tone rather than its actual content, the works in this series present invented monsters and figures in otherworldly settings with jarring tonal variations. Although Redon felt that the prints effectively translated the surreal universe of his source material, they were largely misunderstood in his own time.- ?-1927(Maurice Le Garrec, Paris, sold to the Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH)1927The Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH1927-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Yamamoto, Atsuko. Redon, His Life and Works: I Want to Know More. Tokyo: Bijutsu, 2011. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 32
- {{cite web|title=The Temptation of Saint Anthony (First Series)|url=false|author=Odilon Redon, Becquet, Edmond Deman|year=1888|access-date=16 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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