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Collection Online as of March 22, 2024

Passage of a Soul

Passage of a Soul

1891 (printed 1920)
(French, 1840–1916)
Sheet: 32.8 x 24.8 cm (12 15/16 x 9 3/4 in.); Platemark: 9.2 x 5.8 cm (3 5/8 x 2 5/16 in.)
Catalogue raisonné: Mellerio 21, Harrison 25
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Odilon Redon created this work by cutting the plate from an existing print in two. He reworked the right side of the plate into the image seen here.
  • ?-2011
    Dr. Eric Baer, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    2011-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Schneider, Erika. "Gauguin's Watery Women: A Multivalent Symbolist Reading." In Rosina Neginsky, ed. Symbolism: Its Origins and Its Consequences. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 284, fig. 15.7
  • {{cite web|title=Passage of a Soul|url=false|author=Odilon Redon, Editions Lucien Vogel, Paris|year=1891 (printed 1920)|access-date=22 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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