Lot 143
  • 143

Odilon Redon

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Odilon Redon
  • La tentation de Saint Antoine (Mellerio 83-93)
  • lithograph
  • Sheet: 448 by 316mm; 17 5/8 by 12½in
The complete set of ten lithographs, 1888, from the planned edition of 60 (of which only 58 were printed), on Chine appliqué paper, as published in original green paper wrappers with lithographic frontispiece and title and vignette on verso (as issued)

Provenance

Ex coll. André Marie Louis Mellerio (L. 153a) recto

Condition

With wide margins, in good condition apart from some scattered mottled foxing in the margins of the support sheets and occasional surface dirt, plate 2 with very slight scuffing visible in a raking light, the frontispiece with minor tears to the spine and two fox marks on the front cover.
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