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Odilon Redon
À Edgar Poe1882

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Lithograph showing a giant eye-shaped balloon floating above a dark landscape, with a small gondola suspended beneath by thin lines, plants in the lower left, and French text below
Lithograph in soft grays and black, profile portrait of a woman in a veil and small cap, framed by a dark arched form with a pale luminous crescent above; French text caption below in Roman and bold type.
Lithograph in deep black tones depicting a large bell suspended from above, with wispy tendrils radiating from it, and a pale disembodied mask-like face below, beside a twisted rope descending from the upper right. Text in French at bottom reads "Un masque sonne le GLAS FUNÈBRE."
Lithograph in dark tones depicting a luminous sphere with a single eye floating against a star-flecked night sky, while a disembodied head with curly hair peers over a diagonal edge at lower right; French text caption below.
Lithograph in deep blacks and grays; a woman's profile in a ruffled collar emerges among floating spheres, one bearing a large disembodied eye; radiating crackled lines at left; small faces appear along the bottom margin below a French caption including the word SPHÈRES.
Lithograph depicting a profile view of a face with long loose hair, partially overlapped by a large dark triangle, rendered in fine gray tones on cream paper.

Odilon Redon, To Edgar Poe (The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon, Mounts toward Infinity) [À Edgar Poe (L'oeil, comme un ballon bizarre se dirige vers l'infini)], 1882, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Wallis Foundation Fund in memory of Hal B. Wallis, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Odilon Redon
Title
À Edgar Poe
Place Made
France
Date Made
1882
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet (each): 17 7/8 × 12 1/2 in. (45.4 × 31.75 cm) Image (each): 10 3/4 × 8 1/4 in. (27.31 × 20.96 cm)
Credit Line
Wallis Foundation Fund in memory of Hal B. Wallis
Accession Number
AC1997.14.1.1-.7
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings

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